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“And sometimes focusing on what you can control is the only way to lessen the pang in your chest when you think about the things you can’t.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“We have danced, we have dined, we have drunk our fill. We have bid a tender and triumphant farewell to the Olden Age, and now we must step boldly into the new. May it be a good and happy one. May it bring unexpected adventures.”
― Jessica Townsend, Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow

“For God's sake, Josie-true love trumps lima beans.”
― Faith Erin Hicks, Pumpkinheads

“I'd take it manfully, and be respected if I couldn't be loved”
― Louisa May Alcott

“Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends.”
― J.K. Rowling

“There is no glory in a grind that literally grinds you down to dust.”
― Elaine Welteroth, More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are

“The greatest thing you can do for your well-being is what you can commit to every single day.”
― Katerina Schneider

“Discovering what you don’t want is just as important as finding out what you do.”
― Elaine Welteroth, More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are

“The world is a turntable that never stops spinning; as humans we merely choose the tracks we want to sit out and the ones that inspire us to dance”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“But just know, I think you have more to offer the world than you give yourself credit for.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“What better way to take a leap of faith than to set something on fire and trust it will not only come out right, but that it will be completely delicious?”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“...you can't control how people look at you, but you can control how far back you pull your shoulders and how high you lift your chin”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“I feel like something has risen inside me too, and it tastes a bit like hope.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“Everything changes. I'll learn to be fine.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“This stuff is complicated. But it's like i'm some long division problem folks keep wanting to parcel into pieces, and they don't reduce, homies. The whole of me is Black. The whole of me is whole.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“No one really wishes to be a queen.”
― Kendare Blake, Three Dark Crowns

“If the world looks too big, I'll hold you that much tighter
If the breeze feels too chill, I'll make the fire hotter
If the storm booms too loud, I'll sing to you still louder
I'll always keep you safe, my tiny, precious daughter”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Now I must give one smirk, and then we may be rational again." Catherine turned away her head, not knowing whether she might venture to laugh. "I see what you think of me," said he gravely -- "I shall make but a poor figure in your journal tomorrow."

My journal!"

Yes, I know exactly what you will say: Friday, went to the Lower Rooms; wore my sprigged muslin robe with blue trimmings -- plain black shoes -- appeared to much advantage; but was strangely harassed by a queer, half-witted man, who would make me dance with him, and distressed me by his nonsense."

Indeed I shall say no such thing."

Shall I tell you what you ought to say?"

If you please."

I danced with a very agreeable young man, introduced by Mr. King; had a great deal of conversation with him -- seems a most extraordinary genius -- hope I may know more of him. That, madam, is what I wish you to say."

But, perhaps, I keep no journal."

Perhaps you are not sitting in this room, and I am not sitting by you. These are points in which a doubt is equally possible. Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenour of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal? My dear madam, I am not so ignorant of young ladies' ways as you wish to believe me; it is this delightful habit of journaling which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Everybody allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female. Nature may have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“It requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other. ”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she was all good. Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. They are, however, allowed to change, only it must be a complete change.”
― J M Barrie, Peter Pan

“I just read them for fun."
"Dictionaries?"
"Yes."
"That doesn't sound like fun. That sounds awful."
"Awful used to mean 'full of awe.' The same meaning as awesome. I learned that from a dictionary."
He blinked.
"See?" She said. "Fun.”
― Max Barry, Lexicon