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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The other personality that lives in your heart'...This is the central theme of Yu-Gi-Oh!. Perhaps the characters I draw are also personalities that exist inside me. Yūgi is in my heart. But also Jōnouchi and Kaiba...Pegasus and Mai...Ushio the bully, Insector Haga, Esper Roba...and the countless monsters! Just what kind of person am I?”
― Kazuki Takahashi, Yu-Gi-Oh! (3-in-1 Edition), Vol. 6

“Anzu: I don't know where I should go either...everybody's like that! We're all scared, but we have to keep moving forward, even if we can't see the road in front of us...holding our heads up high...believing in what lies ahead...even while we sit here, that moment is coming closer every second...We've all got limited time...you know?...I know it's not easy to chase your dreams...But I want to believe that I have a chance. Even if it's just a tiny one...”
― Kazuki Takahashi, Yu-Gi-Oh! (3-in-1 Edition), Vol. 6

“Anzu [to Atem]: Even if you are two hearts in the same body...It's your own heart you'll face! So stay honest to your heart!”
― Kazuki Takahashi, Yu-Gi-Oh! (3-in-1 Edition), Vol. 6

“You say people's struggles are a game! That's totally wrong!

Facing yourself no matter how tough things get... and keeping up the fight... that's what games are really about!

You bet your chip of life as if it meant nothing! You lost to yourself! When you realized you were going to lose, you didn't have the courage to keep living!

Listen... Real courage is protecting that chip you have in your hands... no matter what!"

-Anzu to Kaiba”
― Kazuki Takahashi, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Vol. 5: The Heart of the Cards

“Katsuya Jōnouchi: I...I don't know what's gonna come in the future. For example, if I go down this street and I turn at the corner, I might be able to see the next town...Maybe there's a lady I don't know, carrying a baby and shopping...That's about as much as I can see into the future!”
― Kazuki Takahashi, Yu-Gi-Oh! (3-in-1 Edition), Vol. 6

“Yūgi [to Atem]: I won't ask what you're fighting for...or what you want...but I'll go with you to find the answer!”
― Kazuki Takahashi, Yu-Gi-Oh! (3-in-1 Edition), Vol. 6

“She didn’t raise us to care about her,” Tsunami argued. “Kestrel was just keeping us alive, and if that’s what she wants, the best thing we can do is run away right now.”
“I’d like to be something more than alive,” Clay said fiercely. “I’d like to be the kind of dragon she doesn’t think I am — the kind they write prophecies about. That dragon would rescue her no matter how awful she is.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Dragonet Prophecy

“I know I don’t know much about anything,” he said. “But I think it doesn’t have to work like this.”
“It does,” Peril said, struggling to push him off. Her talons shoved ineffectually at him. “Dragons kill each other all the time. In war, in here, anywhere, for no reason at all. That’s how we are. Especially you and me. We’re the same. We’re dangerous.”
“That’s not how I am,” Clay said. “No matter what happened when I hatched. I can’t feel this killer inside me that’s supposed to be there. Maybe that’s what the prophecy is about. Maybe the dragonets are supposed to show everyone how to get along without a lot of killing.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Dragonet Prophecy

“Clay wished his own wings were as vast as the cavern itself so he could hide his friends from Morrowseer. He wished his talons were as huge as the stalagmites and as sharp as the rock shards. He wished he were big enough to be brave and brave enough to be big. He’d never wanted anything so much as he wanted to protect his friends from this tall, hissing, scornful, immensely dangerous dragon.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Dragonet Prophecy

“Scrolls,” Jambu said. “Um. Those are . . . ?” Starflight looked as if someone had just asked him whether breathing was really necessary.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Hidden Kingdom

“If only Starflight had thought of chaining me to a tower above gladiator fights. I might have been an excellent history student then.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Dragonet Prophecy

“Oh,” Glory said, “well, there’s a logical scientific explanation and seriously, right now you want to have this conversation?”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Dragonet Prophecy

“I WON’T get upset!” Cliff shouted. “I want! to SEE! MOMMY KILL GRANDMA!”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Escaping Peril

“Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.”
― Pam Brown

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

“I can't stop," the shark rasped. "If I stop, I shall sink and die. That's the way I'm made. I have to keep going always, and even when I get where I'm going, I'll have to keep on. That's living.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“You and I, being grown-up and having lost our hearts at least twice or thrice along the way, might shut our eyes and cry out: Not that way, child! But
as we have said, September was Somewhat Heartless, and felt herself reasonably safe on that road. Children always do.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“Stay curious, stay weird, stay kind and don't let anyone ever tell you you aren't smart or brave or worthy enough.”
― Alex Hirsch, Gravity Falls: Journal 3

“You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.”
― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

“But on paper, things can live forever.
On paper, a butterfly
never dies.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

“I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

“Even the silence
has a story to tell you.
Just listen. Listen.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

“I’m practicing
to be seen.”
― Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again

“Whoever invented English
should have learned
to spell.”
― Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again

“...every language has annoyances and illogical rules, as well as sensible beauty.”
― Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again