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“I think love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“I would never again be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it... yet.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Nobody is any authority on the fucks other people give,”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“The truth can cause a lot of trouble for those who are not supposed to know it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Once a story you’ve regarded as true has turned false, you begin suspecting all stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“You need to be strong. They were trying to make things better. But it can put a lot of pressure on a person to be told they need to be strong.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“You have to pick your moment. He’d always said so. Told everyone who’d listen. Have to recognise it when it comes, and seize it, with no care for the past and no worries about the future.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“When one man knowingly kills another, they call it murder! When society causes the deaths of thousands, they shrug and call it a fact of life.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“Loyalty is an admirable quality,’ said Barezin. ‘Admirable. But it must cut both ways.’

‘Loyalty to a corrupt regime,’ added Heugen, ‘is foolishness . Worse. Cowardice. Worse! It’s disloyalty!”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“Winning made people friendly. Winning too much made them nervous.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“When men spoke of changing the world, they always meant to suit their own interests.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“The wiser a man is, the more he stands ready to be educated.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“Call it art, you can get away with anything.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“When you tell a lie, you have to sound like you believe it. Goes double for the ones you tell yourself.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“But that’s what growing up is, maybe. Realising what a fucking arse you’ve been.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“The goal of government, you see,” and the Arch Lector prodded at the air with his bony forefinger, “is to load the unhappiness onto those least able to make you suffer for it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“A cynic might observe that the scriptures can be used to support both sides of every argument.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“Aye, well, we all play the cards we're dealt."
"Some of us do. Some of us kill men with better cards and play theirs instead.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“The figurehead goes at the front of the ship. Braves the terror of wind and waves, takes the risks and reaps the glory. But it’s an unnoticed fellow hidden away near the back who does the steering.” He smiled up towards the head of the column. “No leader worth a damn ever led from the front.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“But that’s the nice thing about looking backwards. You can pick out the bits that suit your story and toss the unhappy truths to the wind.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22