“Perhaps that’s why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
― The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.”
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“But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been broken.
Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway.
It was the single most beautiful thing he’d seen in his entire life.”
― Words of Radiance
Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway.
It was the single most beautiful thing he’d seen in his entire life.”
― Words of Radiance
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