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“Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing. It steals your focus and aims it toward the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs—on the probabilities.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“To care at all about anyone or anything means inevitably to suffer.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox

“She often wished she were a body with hinges, that she might throw open a door in her chest and fill its cavity.”
― Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom

“I believed the universe was completely random, and that's what eluded us. Because we all want to believe we are fundamental in some way. We are our own myths, our own legends. We give things reason. We are reasonable creatures and so everything must have its place, its purpose — but we are also egoistical creatures, and so we give ourselves reasons that don't exist.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox