💬 Quotes

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"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."
— Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows)by Leigh Bardugo
"The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true."
— Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows)by Leigh Bardugo
"No mourners. No funerals."
— Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows)by Leigh Bardugo
"We are all monsters here, some just wear better masks than others."
— Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows)by Leigh Bardugo
"The Magician's Nephew acts as a lens through which we see that the seeds of Narnia's morality are sown in the soil of our own world’s choices."
— A curriculum guide to The magician's nephewby Harold Flender
"Digory’s journey is not merely one of exploration, but a rigorous lesson in the burden of responsibility and the consequences of curiosity."
— A curriculum guide to The magician's nephewby Harold Flender
"Uncle Andrew represents the cautionary archetype of the intellect detached from conscience, turning magic into a mere tool for ego."
— A curriculum guide to The magician's nephewby Harold Flender
"In the creation of Narnia, we see that music is not just sound, but the fundamental vibration of existence and truth."
— A curriculum guide to The magician's nephewby Harold Flender
"Jadis, the Queen of Charn, serves as a stark reminder that power without humility leads inevitably to the destruction of one's own world."
— A curriculum guide to The magician's nephewby Harold Flender
"Teaching this text requires guiding students to recognize that every act of magic in C.S. Lewis’s work is inextricably linked to an ethical cost."
— A curriculum guide to The magician's nephewby Harold Flender
"I think the thing is to try and make the most of each day. To try and be happy, even if it’s hard. To try and be kind, even if you’re angry. To try and be good, even if you’re tempted to be bad."
— One Dayby David Nicholls
"You can live a whole lifetime in a day and never notice that this is beautiful."
— One Dayby David Nicholls
"It’s funny, the way things work out. You spend so much time waiting for something to happen, and then, when it does, it’s not how you imagined it at all."
— One Dayby David Nicholls
"I love you, Dexter. I just don't like you very much anymore."
— One Dayby David Nicholls
"The past is just a story we tell ourselves, and most of it is probably fiction."
— One Dayby David Nicholls
"In the new world order, information is power. Those who control it control the world."
— Digital Fortressby Dan Brown
"Who watches the watchers?"
— Digital Fortressby Dan Brown
"The memory of a computer is not the same as the memory of a man. A man forgets; a computer records."
— Digital Fortressby Dan Brown
"Cryptography is the last line of defense in the information age."
— Digital Fortressby Dan Brown
"Total security is an illusion. It is a myth that we tell ourselves to sleep at night."
— Digital Fortressby Dan Brown