“every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.“
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“every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.“
“people are more difficult to work with than machines. and when you break a person, he can't be fixed.“
“you don‘t know what goes on in anyone‘s life but your own. and when you mess with one part of a person‘s life, you‘re not messing with just that part. unfortunately, you can‘t be that precise and selective. when you mess with one part of a person‘s life, you‘re messing with their entire life. everything. . . affects everything.“
“it is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.“
“you had a magic mirror that let you see life outside your tiny world. your castle. i had books. reading them is like traveling to other places. being other people. living other lives. it made life far less...lonely.“
“that‘s how relationships work – when one person is blind, the other must see for them. when one person struggles, the other must remain strong.“
“doing nothing can sometimes be the most effective form of action.“
“in space there are no seasons, and this is as true of the ships that cross the distances between humanity's far-flung homes. but we measure our seasons anyway: by a smile, a silence, a song.“
“he memory fades, and i'm left hanging on to the ghosts of his words.,
“to really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.“
“just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.“
“in the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. right now, i don't know if i'll ever smile again.“
“it's not the changes that will break your heart; it's that tug of familiarity.“
“i do not know how much they see through the mist. i doubt it would matter to them if they knew the truth. sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.“
“if you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. and if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.“
“hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?“
“everything i love has always had a tendency to be taken away from me.“
“that's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.“
“the world would always have the liars and traitors and thieves, but there were still those who were good at heart.“
“we had a terrible start… doesn‘t mean we can‘t have a better ending.“
“for the longest time, i thought the power of positive thinking would get me by. and it helps, that's for dang sure. but it takes more than thinking and hoping and wishing and praying. you need a whole lot of doing.“
“ten thousand skies, and a million worlds, and it still wouldn‘t be enough for me to share with you. nothing less than forever will do.“
“not everyone gets a true ending. there are two types of endings because most people give up at the part of the story where things are the worst, where the situation feels hopeless. but that‘s when hope is needed most. only those who persevere can find their true ending.“
“i think i realized that i would rather die because i betrayed them, than live because i betrayed you.“
“failure doesn't define you. it's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.“
“she's my purpose and we're going to save each other. we're going to save everyone. and then i'm going to convince her that she's supposed to stay here. with me.“
“sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.“
“dead souls dream only of death. small dreams for small men. it is life that expands to fill worlds. life is your master, or death is.“
“faith: everyone knows it‘s something you‘re supposed to have, but it‘s harder to put that into practice when your senses are telling you all hope is lost.“
“you can't live in fear. you make things happen or they happen to you.“
“no matter where we are, we‘ll always share the same sky. we can always find each other in the same constellation.“
“you deserve every star in the galaxy laid out at your feet and a thousand diamonds in your hair. you deserve someone who'll run with you as far and as fast as you want to. holding your hand, not holding you back.“
“when you have lost hope, you have lost everything. and when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.“
“be true to yourself. but that's something everyone says and no one means. no one wants you to be yourself. they want you to be the version of yourself that they like.“
“life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: you're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.“
“sometimes it seems like everyone knows who i am except me.“
“my greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. it is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. for only the pain of empathy will keep us human. there‘s no version of god that can help us if we ever lose that.“
“Iibraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.“
“many boys will bring you flowers. but someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. and even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. only that boy earns your heart.“
“our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. that is the nature of hope.“
“i know what it is to become something you hate, i know how it hurts. but life is full of hurt. and your capacity for baring it is much greater than you believe.“
“if he thought i was bad, i would be worse. if he thought i was cruel, i would be horrifying.“
“i choose to be the person that i want to be.“
“twilight, again. another ending. no matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.“
“although i'm tired, and it feels like years since i had a good night's rest, i can't bring myself to fall asleep. it's like i've forgotten how.“
“i feel like i'm losing my damn mind, like your face has been carved into my heart, and i don't remember when, and i don't understand why, but the scar is there, and i can't get it to heal. it won't go. i can't make it fade. and you won't even look at me.“
“we cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.“
