Xavier De Becker

“Change is pain that fades,”
― Brandon Sanderson, Defiant

“Even in science," Contemplation said, "faith plays a role. Each experiment done, each step on the path of knowledge, is achieved by striking out into the darkness. You can't know what you will find, or that you will find anything at all. It is faith that drives us - faith in answers that must exist.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Sunlit Man

“She only got two kinds of looks: appraising, and skeptical. Those who saw her as a woman, and those who saw her as a girl. Both looks made her feel like a sack of grain being weighed, but she hated the latter more, that way it was meant to make her feel small. The fact, sometimes, it did.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“And that was the madness, the cruelty, that life was fragile, and he had so much to love, and spent all his time mourning the loss before he suffered it.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power