💬 Quotes
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"Once upon a broken heart, there was a girl who believed in love, and a boy who didn't believe in anything at all."
— Once Upon a Broken Heartby Stephanie Garber
"The Noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos given shape."
— The Knife of Never Letting Goby Patrick Ness
"You don't know what you can do until you're forced to do it."
— The Knife of Never Letting Goby Patrick Ness
"But the Noise is never quiet. It's never anything but loud. And it's never anything but the truth."
— The Knife of Never Letting Goby Patrick Ness
"Maybe it's not the world that's so bad, but the people who get to choose what to do with it."
— The Knife of Never Letting Goby Patrick Ness
"I’m not a boy anymore, I’m a man. And a man does what he has to do, even when it’s the hardest thing in the world."
— The Knife of Never Letting Goby Patrick Ness
"A knife isn't just a tool, it's a choice. It's a choice to be a killer, or a choice to be something else."
— The Knife of Never Letting Goby Patrick Ness
"I was born to be a vessel for the god’s mark, a scarlet mote in the eye of the world."
— Kushiel's dartby Jacqueline Carey
"There is no shame in service, only in the betrayal of one's own nature."
— Kushiel's dartby Jacqueline Carey
"Knowledge is a weapon, and like any weapon, it must be honed if it is to be of any use."
— Kushiel's dartby Jacqueline Carey
"To be chosen is a burden, but to choose for oneself is the true test of the soul."
— Kushiel's dartby Jacqueline Carey
"There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances only are needed for its call into activity."
— Twice-told Talesby Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Nobody cares now for his grave, turf, or stone, though were he to rise among them, two hundred years ago, he would be cast out of the synagogue and hurled down the precipice."
— Twice-told Talesby Nathaniel Hawthorne
"He had discovered a secret art—the art of bringing up the shadows of the past, and making them present to the imagination."
— Twice-told Talesby Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Happy are they who have no dead hearts, and live to love something that they can lose."
— Twice-told Talesby Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Language—human language—after all, is but little better than the hieroglyphics on an Egyptian mummy, or the inscriptions upon decayed tombstones, not decipherable without a key."
— Twice-told Talesby Nathaniel Hawthorne
"A man's heart may be a fortress, and yet have its breaches; a man's life may be a continuous stream, yet have its eddies of stagnant thought."
— Twice-told Talesby Nathaniel Hawthorne
"A ship is like a human body in this respect, that to preserve its health, every part must be kept in order, and no part can suffer without the whole body feeling it."
— Two Years Before the Mastby Richard Henry Dana