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  • #1
    “You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.”
    James V. Hart, Hook

  • #2
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #3
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

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  • #5
    Ezra Pound
    “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
    Ezra Pound

  • #6
    William Shakespeare
    “How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
    William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

  • #7
    Og Mandino
    “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
    Og Mandino

  • #8
    Leonard Cohen
    “Ring the bells that still can ring
    Forget your perfect offering
    There is a crack in everything
    That's how the light gets in.”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #9
    Romain Rolland
    “If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.”
    Romain Rolland

  • #10
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “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

  • #11
    William Shakespeare
    “When he shall die,
    Take him and cut him out in little stars,
    And he will make the face of heaven so fine
    That all the world will be in love with night
    And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #13
    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    Plato

  • #14
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #15
    Louis Sachar
    “If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs,
    "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies."
    While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
    Crying to the moo-oo-oon,
    "If only, If only.”
    Louis Sachar, Holes

  • #16
    “Gravity is our playmate, momentum is our friend. We are blurs of motion. We are racing, and we are both winning, because we do not race each other. We race the world, and as fast as it rotates, as fast as it revolves, we are faster.”
    Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

  • #17
    “We wonder what lies beyond.
    One day, she will grow up and imagine death as an angel that will lend her wings, so she can find out.
    Death, unfortunately, is not in the business of lending wings.”
    Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

  • #19
    “Well, hello, darling with the ocean eyes,
    How many secrets keep us apart?
    A sea of poems, a field of sighs,
    Can I cross and return to the start?”
    Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

  • #20
    “She wanted to go back. She wanted to be a little girl again, the one who thought getting high meant being pushed on the swing and pain was falling off her bike.”
    Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

  • #21
    “She would be an object in motion that would stay in motion, even if it meant flattening everything in her path.”
    Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

  • #22
    “I would have pulled her back. I would have saved her from falling, but she didn’t see my hand”
    Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

  • #23
    “She was tired. Gravity pulled at her more aggressively than usual. When she closed her eyes, she could feel it, dragging her deeper, deeper. I would have pulled her back. I would have saved her from falling, but she didn’t see my hand.”
    Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

  • #24
    Libba Bray
    “Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.”
    Libba Bray, The Diviners

  • #25
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #26
    J.K. Rowling
    “But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew — and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents — that there was all the difference in the world.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  • #27
    “Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.”
    Christopher Pike

  • #28
    “Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.”
    Christopher Pike, The Last Vampire

  • #29
    “Darkness approaches from outside.
    I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.”
    Christopher Pike, The Last Vampire

  • #30
    “Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and he replied, "That a man should wake each morning and believe deep in his heart that he will live forever, even though he knows that he is doomed.”
    Christopher Pike, Phantom

  • #31
    “A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.”
    Christopher Pike, Sati

  • #32
    “No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.”
    Christopher Pike, The Eternal Dawn



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