Amy M

“Most of us mortals never get to know our real destiny; we're just trampled by it. By the time we raise our heads and see it moving off down the road, it's already too late, and we have to walk the rest of the way along the straight and narrow ditch the dreamers call maturity. Hope is no more than the belief that that moment hasn't yet come, that we might still manage to see our real destiny when it draws near and jump on board before the chance of being ourselves disappears forever, condemning us to live in emptiness, missing what should have been and never was.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Labyrinth of the Spirits

“Yes, intellectuals and scholar are paid to think deep thoughts—but those thoughts are often owned by others.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“He had become the living representation of how men liked to think of themselves: one man doing an awful duty and doing it well, against the odds.”
― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City

“One cannot go about indiscriminately telling the truth. It must be doled out in bits and pieces or no one shall ever believe it.”
― Will Thomas, Fatal Enquiry