Stevie

“Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know: those who know the future don’t talk about it. Those who’ve read the Book of Ages never admit to it.”
― Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

“Suffering is cheap as clay and twice as common. What matters is what each man makes of it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“you are boundless, there is nothing you can't do.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn