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#1

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

tags: philosophy, wisdom

5922 likes

#2

“Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

tags: books, stories

1317 likes

#3

“Ruby’s stories didn’t have morals. They meant one thing in the light and one thing in the dark and another thing entirely when she was wearing sunglasses.”
― Nova Ren Suma, Imaginary Girls

46 likes

#4

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife

8035 likes

#5

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

tags: love, mr-darcy

12383 likes

#6

“Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.”
― Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice

329 likes

#7

“I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

3759 likes

#8

“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

5355 likes

#9

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: inspirational-quotes, strength-and-courage

16597 likes

#10

“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

5071 likes

#11

“I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

5983 likes

#12

“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: dauntless, divergent, fearless, four, tris

11868 likes

#13

“...there is power in self-sacrifice.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

tags: self-sacrifice, selflessness

1934 likes

#14

“Yer in my blood, Saba, he says. Yer in my head. Yer in my breath, yer in my bones...gawd help me, yer everywhere. You have bin since the first moment I set eyes on you.”
― Moira Young, Blood Red Road

470 likes

#15

“Ever heard of the rule of three? he shouts as we run.
No!
If you save somebody's life three times, their life belongs to you. You saved my life today, that makes once. Save it twice more an I'm all yers.”
― Moira Young, Blood Red Road

tags: blood-red-road, funny, humor, moira-young, rule

418 likes

#16

“Lugh goes first always first an I follow on behind.
An that's fine.
That's right.
That's how it's meant to be.”
― Moira Young, Blood Red Road

tags: blood-red-road, moira-young, quote

93 likes

#17

“That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition
it is.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

248 likes

#18

“I've been shucked and gone to heaven.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

714 likes

#19

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: fair, life

6531 likes

#20

“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.
But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

tags: inspirational-life

4013 likes

#21

“I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

tags: romantic

664 likes

#22

“Power isn’t control at all — power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

tags: leadership, power

588 likes

#23

“I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

644 likes

#24

“yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

275 likes

#25

“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

tags: ender, freedom, necessity, service

275 likes

#26

“It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.
It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.
It's not a weakness.
It's your best strength.”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

tags: control, love, strength, weakness

1303 likes

#27

“She looked up. “A world of nevers under a never sky.”
She fit in well then, he thought. A girl who never shut up.”
― Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky

669 likes

#28

“But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again. ”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

603 likes

#29

“War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

314 likes

#30

“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

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