Allison Mopps

“Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends'.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“Snape looked horrified. 'You have kept him alive so that he can die at the right moment?'

'Don't look shocked, Severus. How many men and women have you watched die?'

'Lately, only those whom I could not save', said Snape.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Always worth it to have tried, even if you fail, even if you fall like a meteor forever. Better to have flamed in the darkness, to have inspired others, to have lived, than to have sat in the darkness, cursing the people who borrowed, but did not return, your candle.”
― Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances