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“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the princess when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock on the witch's door when she is already away on vacation. The wicked uncle cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“Talking to people who are different from us can be radically transformative. It's the antidote to fear.”
― Kio Stark, When Strangers Meet: How People You Don't Know Can Transform You

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote

“I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.”
― Truman Capote

“I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“And you say you are broken, but broken mirrors like you create the most beautiful patterns of light.”
― Nikita Gill

“... I am done being in love with you."
"Why?"
"I am in love with someone else. Someone who needs it more than you."
"Who?"
"Me.”
― Nikita Gill, Your Body is an Ocean: Love and Other Experiments

“As leaves cover the forest floor in a carpet of vibrant rusts, orange and gold, autumn proves that sometimes death too can be a beautiful thing.”
― Nikita Gill

“what a perfect collision of star it was that came together at just the right moment at just the right time to build the incredible thing that is you”
― Nikita Gill, Your Soul is a River

“You

And first,
before him
and before her
and before them
there was you.

Never forget that.”
― Nikita Gill, Your Soul is a River

“Don't let a king
or a prince
or a fairytale
tell you you are smaller than that or who you are meant to be.”
― Nikita Gill, Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty

“She is alone.
And oh
how brilliantly she shines.”
― Nikita Gill, Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty

“We are the blood
of the witches
you thought were dead.

We carry witchcraft in our bones
whilst magic still sings
inside out heads.

When the witch hunters
imprisoned out ancestors
when they tried to burn the magic away.

Someone should have
warned them
that magic cannot be tamed.

Because you cannot burn away
what has always
been aflame.”
― Nikita Gill

“People aren't born sad; we make them that way.”
― Nikita Gill

“A blade of grass is the journeywork of the stars”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“I refuse putting from me the best that I am.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Are you the new person drawn toward me?”
― Walt Whitman

“Stand up for the Crazy and Stupid”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“I see great things in baseball.”
― Walt Whitman

“I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.”
― Walt Whitman

“In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.”
― Walt Whitman

“Freedom: to walk free and own no superior”
― Walt Whitman

“Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.”
― Walt Whitman

“What doesn’t kill you leaves scars, ruins your lungs, dries out all your tears, leaves you lying awake at 4 in the morning
wishing you weren’t alive.”
― Walt Whitman

“Simplicity is the glory of expression.”
― Walt Whitman

“I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name....”
― Walt Whitman