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“My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.”
― Lisa See, Peony in Love

“My mother used to tell me that Heaven never seals off all exits.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“A brave heart? It feels like a swollen and aching thing in my chest.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“She…hoped. And hope was dangerous. Hope was the most vicious evil of them all, the thing that had managed to thrive in Pandora’s box among misery, and disease, and sadness—and what could endure alongside others with such teeth if it didn’t have ghastly claws of its own?”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“Night. No one prayed, so that the night would pass quickly. The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Standing there, she realized that, contrary to what people say, life does not reach into the future; rather, it points to the past, at least in terms of its framework and structure.”
― Bi Feiyu, The Moon Opera

“Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?...Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough...then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing...There's always another secret.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“How can you really know someone?' she said finally. 'Even if I take my heart out, dissect it into pieces, and explain each piece in detail to you - in the end, I would still have to stuff the whole damn thing back into my own chest”
― An Yu, Braised Pork

“When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love”
― Lisa See, Peony in Love

“How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?”
― Lisa See, Peony in Love

“Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.”
― Lisa See, Peony in Love

“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“As she spoke, I wanted to cry, because sometimes it's just so damn hard to be a mother. We have to wait and wait and wait for our children to open their hearts to us. And if that doesn't work, we have to bide our time and look for the moment of weakness when we can sneak back into their lives and they will see us and remember us for the people who love them unconditionally.”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“Maybe stories and memories are destined to be incomplete...”
― Lisa See, Dreams of Joy

“But the distance between us is too far, as vast as the divide between brothers who fought for a throne, or gods who tore apart a continent.”
― Judy I. Lin, A Magic Steeped in Poison

“Any place you love is the world to you.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

“I am not going to Egypt,' said the bird. 'I am going to the House of Death.' He kissed the prince and fell down dead at his feet.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince

“A gryphon does not shed tear when it's called a seraphim. It knows what it is. Only a seraphim in the mask of a gryphon would be upset -- for their truth has been revealed. Never show offense, or you reveal your truth to your enemies. Control what they see, and you control what they think.”
― Frankie Diane Mallis, Daughter of the Drowned Empire

“I know you have questions. I do, too. But I've gotten this far without answers.' He folded his arms. 'It took me a while to learn that. I don't need to know everything. Answers are nice, but they don't solve your problems. You do that”
― Frankie Diane Mallis, Daughter of the Drowned Empire

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Sometimes things fall apart so better things can come together.”
― Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“I am going to keep on defying you. I am going to shame you with my defiance. You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing. You may win in the end, you may ensorcell me and hurt me and humiliate me, but I will make sure you lose everything I can take from you on the way down. I promise you this is the least of what I can do.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I'm so small,” said the mole. “Yes,” said the boy, “but you make a huge difference.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse