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“Who wills, Can.
Who tries, Does.
Who loves, Lives.”
― Anne McCaffrey

“You tell yourself it would be best for her to die. You tell yourself that if now, at this hour of the night, she died, it would be easier. For you, you probably mean, but you don't finish the sentence.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Malady of Death

“When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in--that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“I just didn't want to be a loser anymore...

-Mitsuko Souma”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale