Hope

“Fear can't be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They're like love. They're almost identical emotions. That's why Ares and Aphrodite like each other. Their twin sons - Fear and Panic - were spawned from both war and love.'
'But I don't...this doesn't make sense.'
'No,' Piper agreed. 'Stop thinking about it. Just feel.'
'I hate that.'
'I know. You can't plan for feelings. Like with Percy, and your future - you can't control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“Those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged.”
― J.K. Rowling

“And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell