

“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye

“Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.”
― Hero With a Thousand Faces
― Hero With a Thousand Faces

“We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”
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“Let's carpe the hell out of this diem.”
― The Darkest Minds
― The Darkest Minds

“Regrets are illuminations come too late.”
― The Hero with a Thousand Faces
― The Hero with a Thousand Faces
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