“When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.”
― I Am Number Four
― I Am Number Four
“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Divergent
― Divergent
“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human natur.”
― Nicholas Nickleby
― Nicholas Nickleby
“Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.”
― Nicholas Nickleby
― Nicholas Nickleby
“Who says that fictions only and false hair
Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?
Is all good structure in a winding stair?”
― The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert
Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?
Is all good structure in a winding stair?”
― The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert
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