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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“But understanding a thing and accepting it are so very different things.”
― Kat Zhang, What's Left of Me

“But the thing is, sharing hands doesn't mean sharing goals. Sharing eyes doesn't mean sharing visions. And sharing a heart doesn't mean sharing the things we love.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“Everybody’s got sad stories.” Devon’s voice was as ungiving as stone. “And everyone thinks they’re so very special and broken because of them.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“Easy to not think about other people's suffering, when it was hidden away. Harder to stomach when it collapsed on your front porch.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“Hope could be painful, too. Hope could be dangerous, if it grew too large and then shattered.”
― Kat Zhang, Echoes of Us

“At least when things are messy, it means they aren't sure. And that means they might change.”
― Kat Zhang, Echoes of Us

“What if all the dreaming gets in the way of actually doing things? What if there isn't time for dreaming?"
"There's always time for dreaming," Jackson said. "If it makes you happy, then there's time.”
― Kat Zhang, Echoes of Us

“We all react to hell differently.”
― Kat Zhang, Once We Were

“The stars looked like a map of possibilites above us.”
― Kat Zhang, Echoes of Us