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  • #1
    Marie Lu
    “But true rulers are not born. We are made.”
    ― Marie Lu, The Rose Society
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    Pierce Brown
    “Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Golden Son
    tags: family, home
    1246 likes

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    Neal Shusterman
    “My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There’s no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Scythe
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  • #4
    Pierce Brown
    “Liars make the best promises.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Golden Son
    tags: lies, promises
    420 likes

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  • #5
    Jay Kristoff
    “If you can't see your chains, what use is a key?”
    ― Jay Kristoff, Godsgrave
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  • #6
    Marie Lu
    “Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.”
    ― Marie Lu, The Young Elites
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  • #8
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Only two things kept you safe: money and power.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House
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  • #9
    Mark Lawrence
    “Truth is a weapon and lies are a necessary shield.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Red Sister
    tags: lies, truth
    59 likes

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  • #10
    Holly Black
    “The point of a fight is not to have a good fight, it’s to win.”
    ― Holly Black, The Wicked King
    tags: fight, win
    359 likes

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  • #11
    Brandon Sanderson
    “The man who wants you to trust him is the one you must fear the most.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire
    61 likes

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  • #12
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “The best lies about me are the ones I told.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: lies, lying, self-deception, tricksters
    1080 likes

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  • #13
    “The truth," he says, "is a painful reminder of why I prefer to live among the lies.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
    812 likes

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  • #14
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    414 likes

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  • #15
    Brandon Sanderson
    “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
    tags: storytelling
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  • #16
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Life before Death.
    Strength before Weakness.
    Journey before Destination.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
    tags: inspirational, motto
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  • #17
    James Baldwin
    “Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: freedom, liberty
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  • #18
    James Baldwin
    “You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
    tags: home
    766 likes

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  • #19
    N.K. Jemisin
    “Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season
    tags: home
    302 likes

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  • #20
    Evan Winter
    “Life is nothing more than moments in time. To achieve greatness, you have to give up those moments. You have to give your life to your goal.”
    ― Evan Winter, The Rage of Dragons
    tags: cost, desire, dream, goal, life, payment, price, sacrifice, time
    34 likes

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  • #21
    Mark Lawrence
    “Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
    tags: predictability, sacrifice, weakness
    233 likes

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  • #22
    V.E. Schwab
    “What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
    ― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
    2567 likes

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  • #23
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “My mother raised me to be polite, to be demure. I have long operated under the idea that civility is subservience. But it hasn't gotten me very far, that type of kindness. The world respects people who think they should be running it.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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  • #24
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “You can be sorry about something and not regret it,” Evelyn says.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
    1080 likes

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  • #25
    Robin Hobb
    “Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.”
    ― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice
    693 likes

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  • #26
    Sun Tzu
    “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: deception, life, war
    3903 likes

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  • #27
    Sun Tzu
    “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
    ― Sun tzu, The Art of War
    tags: deception, strategy, tactics, war, warfare
    1348 likes



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