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“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

“Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“If you're a fox, play the hare. If you're the hare, play the fox.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“We are not our station in life. We are us—the sum of what we’ve done, what we want to do, and the people who we keep close.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“I will die. You will die. We will all die and the universe will carry on without care. All that we have is that shout into the wind—how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“I will die. You will die. We will all die and the universe will carry on without care. All that we have is that shout into the wind - how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Wise men read books about history. Strong men write them.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“And what is the bloodydamn point of surviving in this cold world if I run from the only warmth it has to offer?”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.’ ”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“It’s not victory that makes a man. It’s his defeats.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
― Anaïs Nin

“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“It's better to burn out than to fade away.”
― Neil Young

“Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."
Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.”
― Terry Pratchett

“It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“Men who love themselves hate those who would dim their glory.”
― Anthony Ryan, Blood Song

“I knew a man once,” Al Sorna continued, “who loved a woman very much. But he had a duty to perform, a duty he knew would cost him his life, and hers too if she stayed with him. And so he tricked her and had her taken far away. Sometimes that man tries to cast his thoughts across the ocean, to see if the love they shared has turned to hate, but he finds only distant echoes of her fierce compassion, a life saved here, a kindness done there, like smoke trailing after a blazing torch. And so he wonders, does she hate me? For she has much to forgive, and between lovers,” his gaze switched from her to me, “betrayal is always the worst sin.”
― Anthony Ryan, Blood Song

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
― George Carlin