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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference.”
― Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge

“And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.”
― Kathryn Stockett

“Ron held up his badge. Mrs Weasley let out a shriek just like Hermione’s. ‘I don’t believe it! I don’t believe it! Oh, Ron, how wonderful! A prefect! That’s everyone in the family!’ ‘What are Fred and I, next-door neighbours?’ said George indignantly, as his mother pushed him aside and flung her arms around her youngest son.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Just because you’ve got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have,” said Hermione nastily, picking up her quill again.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“It’s high time your grandmother learned to be proud of the grandson she’s got, rather than the one she thinks she ought to have —”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Lupin burst out laughing. “Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my ‘furry little problem’ in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Fred and George turned to each other and said together, 'Wow, we're identical!'

'I dunno though, I think I'm still better looking,' said Fred, examining his reflection in the kettle.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Saintlike,” repeated George, opening his eyes and looking up at his brother. “You see . . . I’m holy. Holey, Fred, geddit?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“But this is touching, Severus,” said Dumbledore seriously. “Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?”
“For him?” shouted Snape. “Expecto Patronum!”
From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe. She landed on the office floor, bounded once across the office, and soared out of the window. Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
“After all this time?”
“Always,” said Snape.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Living had always been strange to him. You live so one day you'll die. Whoever came up with it, Dante thought, must have been a mean son of a gun.”
― A. Aures Garrido

“Life is meaningless when you're dead. Meaning can only be had while you live.”
― A. Aures Garrido

“How can one take comfort in the routine of a job, the love of a wife, the security of wealth, the struggle to succeed in any field, and the pleasure of any passion when everything will find their way to an irreversible end.”
― A Aures Garrido, Dante & His Search for Meaning

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?

Seek him always with hours to live.

For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.

And in th sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“let us be elegant or die.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“This is Europe. Here, money is not made. It is inherited or else it is slowly saved over a period of many years and maybe in three generations, a family moves up to a higher class.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient,”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
― Victor Frankl, Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning

“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”
― Viktor E. Frankl