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“Do not be afraid. Fear is how they control you. There's so much in the world you don't have to be afraid of, if you would only open your eyes.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“It's not natural for women to fight."
"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?"
"Knife to the throat?" asked Inej.
"Gun to the back?" said Jesper.
"Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina.
"You're all horrible," said Matthias.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I'm a business man," he'd told her. "No more, no less."
"You're a thief, Kaz."
"Isn't that what I just said?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain

“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
― Adrienne Rich

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.”
― Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Smejah se često, podrugljivo vazda,
Prirodi, Bogu, i govorah smelo,
Da onaj koji obličja nam sazda
Učini sramno,kukavičko delo.”
― Vladislav Petković Dis, Utopljene duše

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.”
― Albert Camus

“Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.”
― Albert Camus

“May I write words more naked than flesh,
stronger than bone, more resilient than
sinew, sensitive than nerve.”
― Sappho

“You may forget but
let me tell you
this: someone in
some future time
will think of us”
― Sappho, The Art of Loving Women

“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“What cannot be said will be wept.”
― Sappho

“You came and I was longing for you.
You cooled a heart that burned with desire.”
― Sappho

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
― Victor Hugo

“I am aware, sure, I am aware. Catastrophically aware.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath