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“A man is nothing if he does not do right by the people around him. No matter if he is king or beggar.”
― Evan Pickering, Hymn of the Ancients

“What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Well, I myself find that respect is like manure. Use it where needed, and growth will flourish. Spread it on too thick, and things just start to smell.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”
― Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle

“What happens when the walls we raise outlive the dangers they were built to keep out? At what point does a fort become a cage?”
― GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

“Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Memory is strange and sometimes cruel. The brain chooses what is kept and what is discarded without any regard to what the heart may want to keep.”
― Sherry Parnell, Let the Willows Weep

“You shouldn't let perfection be the enemy of progress.”
― Shami Stovall, Coliseum Arcanist

“Don't practice until you get it right - practice until you can't get it wrong.”
― Shami Stovall, Dread Pirate Arcanist

“We may not be invisible anymore, but they still want us to disappear.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot

“The most dangerous and violent men are the ones who believe they have nothing to be afraid of.”
― GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

“But the future, vague as it was frightening, was easily ignored for now; it paled so against the brilliance of the present”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“When people believe in something, believe in it so much that it informs their life and death, it may as well exist because it's changing the physical world. At that point, it doesn't matter whether God is real or not. The belief, and the action that follows belief, makes the story true and alters the world to match.”
― GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

“Generation by generation, we forget. Only the body remembers. The body, and the ghosts.”
― GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

“How foolish to think you can tell your children about yourself before they're at least fifty. To ask to be seen by them as a person and not as a function. To say : I am your history, you begin from me, listen to me, it could be useful to you.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter

“Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“There is divine will, and then there is its interpretation by those who seek to serve. They cannot be mistaken for each other.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, Lucha of the Night Forest

“The only thing heavier than a parent’s presence is their absence.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia

“Then you must tell 'em dat love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
― Marcel Proust