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  • #1
    Diogenes of Sinope
    “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”
    Diogenes

  • #2
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”
    Neil DeGrasse Tyson

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection.
    - The Babies speech 1879”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    T.A. Webb
    “When you stand at the abyss, you fall to your knees and you fucking grab for any comfort, any little thing to keep it from swallowing you whole.”
    T.A. Webb

  • #5
    Terry Pratchett
    “Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.”
    Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

  • #6
    Terry Pratchett
    “no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away – until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.”
    Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

  • #7
    Terry Pratchett
    “Tʜᴇʀᴇ's ɴᴏ ᴊᴜsᴛɪᴄᴇ, ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ's ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴍᴇ.

    —Death”
    Terry Pratchett, Mort

  • #8
    Terry Pratchett
    “Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid.”
    Terry Pratchett, Mort
    tags: love

  • #9
    Terry Pratchett
    “Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass. ”
    Terry Pratchett, Mort

  • #10
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #11
    Markus Zusak
    “It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #12
    Jodi Picoult
    “If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”
    Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

  • #13
    J.K. Rowling
    “You'll stay with me?'
    Until the very end,' said James.”
    J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #14
    Markus Zusak
    “Even death has a heart.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #15
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

  • #16
    Herbert Hoover
    “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
    Herbert Hoover

  • #17
    J.K. Rowling
    “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #18
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #19
    George R.R. Martin
    “Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #20
    Terry Pratchett
    “And what would humans be without love?"
    RARE, said Death.”
    Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

  • #21
    Markus Zusak
    “His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #22
    Neil Gaiman
    “I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they'll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. And then she stopped walking. Under the moon, she stopped. And looked at us. She looked at me. Maybe she was trying to tell me something; I don't know. She probably didn't even know I was there. But I'll always love her. All my life.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds' End

  • #23
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

  • #24
    Roberto Bolaño
    “Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
    Roberto Bolano

  • #25
    Markus Zusak
    “Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”
    Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

  • #26
    J.K. Rowling
    “Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign… to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very own skin. Quirrel, full of hatred, greed, and ambition, sharing his soul with Voldemort, could not touch you for this reason. It was agony to touch a person marked by something so good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #27
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #28
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “We are our choices.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #29
    Shannon L. Alder
    “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #30
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
    Theodore Roosevelt



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