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“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
― Stephen King

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

“Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“So you keep your ocean, I'll take the Lake.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“What’s the difference?” I asked him. “Between the love of your life, and your soulmate?”
“One is a choice, and one is not.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“You’ve been silent your whole life. You were silent when we met, silent when you suffered. Silent when life kept hitting you. I was like that too, a little. But not like you. You are a stillness. And I tried to move you. It didn’t work. But that doesn’t mean you didn’t move me. I heard everything you didn’t say. I heard it so loudly that I couldn’t shut it off. Your silence, Senna, I hear it so loudly.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!”
― Bob Marley

“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“ناگزیر از سفرم
بی سر و سامان چون باد
به گرفتار رهایی نتوان گفت آزاد”
― فاضل نظری, گزینه اشعار فاضل نظری

“فرزانه وار زیستن یعنی چنان زندگی کنیم که فایده زندگی کردن به حداکثر ممکن برسد و هزینه آن به حداقل”
― مصطفی ملکیان

“در بهار طرب
وقتی حتا گل زیر لب می خندد
جان من هار می شود
پاشنه های خونین اش را گاز میگیرد
و هی پارس می کند:" کو شادی؟ کجاست شادی؟”
― فیلیپ اپلمن

“طبق نظر هابز، خنده تندبادی ناگهانی است که ما را به تلاطم در می آورد و علت این تندباد هم این است که دفعتا پی می بریم کاری کرده ایم که خوشمان کرده است یا دفعتا متوجه نقصی در دیگری می شویم. به عبارت دیگر ما وقتی می خندیم که به برتری مان فکر می کنیم و در اکثر مواقع تنها راه اینکه خودمان را برتر ببینیم خفیف کردن دیگران است. این نگاهی تلخ اندیشانه به خنده است، اما وقتی تأمل میکنیم و از روش تجربه معمولی کمک می گیریم، می بینیم نمی شود به آسانی این نظر را رد کرد”
― Marshall Missner, On Hobbes

“من بر تقدير خود واقفم: روزى نام من قرين خاطره ى امرى عظيم خواهد شد، خاطره ى بحرانى كه زمين مانندش را به خود نديده، ژرف ترين تصادم وجدان، اراده اى كه ظاهر شد تا بر هر آن چه تاكنون به باور درآمده، مطلوب انگاشته شده، و تقديس گشته بشورد.

من انسان نيستم، من ديناميتم!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“It was the same girl she had seen this morning. The one she didn't recognise. The one she didn't like. She didn't want to look at her.”
― Savita Kalhan, The Girl in the Broken Mirror

“Didn't they realize their lives were worth more than the dubious affection of one silly man?”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“Neither of you are afraid of anything, and that's not bravery; that's not knowing how bad things can be.”
― Julia Knight, Swords and Scoundrels

“Men like to talk about themselves and their achievements. Nona knew that much about men even if she was little.”
― Mark Lawrence, Red Sister

“He just showed up like a posh vampire I accidentally invited in, then couldn't make leave.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Royals