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“We didn’t feel like strangers, but rather like we’d found someone who had been missing for a lifetime and then suddenly there they were. Puzzle pieces sliding into place, my nervous system both stirring and calming in the most remarkable way in his unusual presence.”
― Mayluna
― Mayluna
“Amren put a hand above Nesta's heart. "That's the key, isn't it? To know the darkness will always remain, but how you choose to face it, handle it... that's the most important part. To not let it consume. To focus upon the good, the things that fill you with wonder." She gestured to the stars zooming past. "The struggle with that darkness is worth it, just to see such things.”
― A Court of Silver Flames
― A Court of Silver Flames
“I think that the only thing that distinguishes the activist from the coward,” he later explained, “is the fact that the coward permits the fear to paralyze him and the activist in spite of his fear knows what his duty is and he goes about it.”
― A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
― A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
“Love is commitment,' Zak says. 'I don't just mean commitment to a person, I mean commitment to making space for someone in your life and letting them grow and change inside that space and still loving them.”
― Love Stories
― Love Stories
“It never failed to amaze me, even after all these centuries, that the elements cared not for human pain. That the sky and the stars paid no heed to the obliterated corpses below. That the birds still sang each morning, no matter how many men had fallen the night before. Sometimes that sense of insignificance was a comfort. But here, languishing in a rotten maze carved into the ruined earth, I felt nothing but despair.
How simple and beautiful life could have been. How far that humanity had strayed.”
― Our Infinite Fates
How simple and beautiful life could have been. How far that humanity had strayed.”
― Our Infinite Fates
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