philip

“Immortals. We're used to seeing each other off and on through the centuries. Years go by, then someone's back and it's just the way it was before. Because we stay the same, though the world doesn't. When someone dies, it takes us a while to process. You think to yourself: I wonder when I'll see him again. Then you remember, and it's a shock every time. You have to keep reminding yourself, until you believe it: I'll never see him again.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Land I Lost

“You are Brother Zachariah, and my Jem. You are a Silent Brother. That does not mean you are not dear to me as you always were, and you always will be. Do you think anything could separate us? Is either of us so weak as that? After all, we have seen and all we have done? I spend every day grateful that you exist and are in the world. And as long as you live, we keep Will alive.”
― Cassandra Clare, A Deeper Love

“She never would, either, unless she earned it, and she knew too well how humans earned wishes. Chiefly: hunting, graverobbing, and murder.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“But I don’t think you would be happy if you saw the children on my road living on a rubbish dump. God, give me the strength and courage and make me perfect pecarse I want to make this world perfect. Malala.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban