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“Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter life, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from dakness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. And he will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he have a mind to laugh at the soul which comes from below into the light, there will be more reason in this than in the laugh which greets him who returns from above out of the light into the den. (Included in the introduction to "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes)”
― Plato

“Humans are a strange breed in the way our fear of getting old seems to be even greater than our fear of dying.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“That the beginning and the end may have been chosen for us, the string already spun, but the middle had always been left undetermined, to be woven and shaped by us.”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure

“Not every flower belongs in every garden.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Love without choice isn't love at all.”
― Beth Revis, A Million Suns

“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
― Fiona Valpy, The Beekeeper's Promise

“Beyond any gift or treasure, I desire to learn to read. (Lia ~ The Wretched of Muirwood)”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Wretched of Muirwood

“I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.”
― Homer Hickam, Rocket Boys

“Being mindful. Rather than having a mind that’s full,”
― Fiona Valpy, The Beekeeper's Promise

“I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way we're on our own.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Finn, listen!" Trevanion said, his voice raw. "I prayed to see you one more time. It's all I prayed for. Nothing more. And my prayers were answered. Go east, I'll lead them west."

"We have a dilemma, then," Finnikin said fiercely. "Because I prayed that you would grow old and hold my children in your arms as you held me. My prayers have not been answered yet, Trevanion. So whose prayer is more worthy? Yours or mine?”
― Melina Marchetta , Finnikin of the Rock

“Juliet by Ann Fortier. The Maestro (Chapter5) ... the slight nausea he was feeling must be somewhat near what God was feeling every minute of every day. If indeed He felt anything. He was, after all, a divine being, and it was entirely conceivable that divinity was incompatible with emotion. If not, then the Maestro sincerely pitied God, for the history of mankind was nothing more than a long tale of tears.”
― Anne Fortier

“Because you think your language is the best language? That because you were born and your parents babbled to you in this tongue, that it is the best language to speak? How small is your mind.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Wretched of Muirwood

“If there is a God, I guess he has nothing to say about it. If there is a God, he must have gotten tired of watching a long time ago.”
― Lauren Oliver, Raven

“I am free. I am haunted. But if nothing else, I am wide awake.”
― Anna Sheehan, A Long, Long Sleep

“Mortality is one of the greatest gifts ever bestowed. After a long and fruitful life, we are able to rest.”
― Nancy Straight, Blood Debt

“Sometimes,” he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, “people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“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

“Liv: Have you ever realized that everything you ever believed was a lie?
Old Woman: I believed my husband was faithful to me. When that fell, it seemed like all the world did with it.”
― Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife

“I’d never been one for prayer, but when things got serious, I put it into overdrive, imagining God on the other end thinking, hmmm . . . Emma doesn’t usually pray. This must be serious.”
― Karen McQuestion, From a Distant Star

“You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle. ”
― Ingrid Law, Savvy

“Elend: I kind of lost track of time…
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“...at the time, King Herbert felt that to remain safe, the kingdom needed an effective intelligence force."

"An intelligent force?" said Will.

"Not intelligent. Intelligence. Although it does help if your intelligence force was also intelligent.”
― John Flanagan, The Ruins of Gorlan

“Oh my God" ...
"Not sure he really exists”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout

“At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Wretched of Muirwood

“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time only a dream. Just as the oak sleeps in the acorn, and the bird waits in the egg, so dreams are the seedlings of realities.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Wretched of Muirwood

“We are more wicked together than separately. If you are ever forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself. Never trust another to do your thinking.”
― Jeff Wheeler

“You are not your mistakes.” Mama Agba holds both of her shoulders, making Amari cry harder. “Do not let one moment define or destroy you. The gods work in mysterious ways. Have faith in their greater plan.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Virtue and Vengeance