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But what is happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because because it was so difficult to articulate?

"No one is perfect. Sometimes you need people to be perfect and they can't be and you hate them forever for not being even though it isn't their fault and it's not yours either. You just needed something they didn't have in them to give you. And then in other people's lives you do the same thing, you're the person who lets everyone down, who fails to make anything better, and you hate yourself."

“The demands of other people do not dissolve; they only multiply. More and more complex, more difficult. Which is another way of saying: more life, more and more of life.”

“Nuala feels as if her own anxieties are in fact the only anxieties that anyone on earth has ever experienced, and that her suffering is something she alone, the only unhappy person in a world of thriving and self-confident individuals, can understand.”

“They carried small stones to graves to mark their visits, to tell the dead that they still remembered. Stones were eternal - flowers were not.”

She was a weapon forged to end lives.

Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

What a ridiculous idea: a castle made of glass.

Be careful but be brave.

He should have stayed home with his chickens.

“Bravery is a fleeting beast, isn’t it? Always there to get you into trouble, but quick to disappear once you’re where you want to be.”

“The heart doesn’t care how long you may have with someone. It just cares that you have the person for as long as you can.”

The one kiss quickly spun out of control, or maybe that was the thing about kisses. They weren’t meant to be controlled.

King Valyn - “Unrest and unease are two very powerful destabilizers of any society. No matter how great one is, they can be taken apart piece by piece from the inside, often weakening the foundation to the point of collapse before anyone realizes what is happening.”

if we stopped believing people were capable of change, then the world might as well be left to burn.