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“Humans were so circular; they lived the same slow cycles of joy and misery over and over, never learning. Every lesson in the universe had to be taught billions of times, and it never stuck.

Maybe it was good that the world forgot every lesson, every good and bad memory, every triumph and failure, all of it dying with each generation. Perhaps this cultural amnesia spared them all. Perhaps if they remembered everything, hope would die instead.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Dreamers are to be classified as weapons.
Ronan already knew he was a weapon ; but he was trying to make up for it.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear