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“Life is not a sport. Life is not math. There is no final end goal and there is no right answer. Just because your truth does not match someone else's truth does not make either of you wrong. Life i...”
“In Fillory you felt the appropriate emotions when things happened. Happiness was a real, actual, achievable possibility. It came when you called. Or no, it never left you in the first place.”
“As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever ...”
“No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden.My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.”
“[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else...”
“You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.”
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
“Too often our intellect gets in the way of our hearts thereby blocking what instinctually can be drawn to us bringing happiness”
“We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.”
“Nature indeed plants the seeds of religion--fear and ignorance kingcraft and priestcraft water and tend it. ”
“... love and fear can sometimes feel the same, but each will lead a person to take different actions. When a decision h as to be made, fear usually motivates me to choose what is best for me, where...”
“That's what we did, didn't we, Audrey? We learned to be brave when it was easier to be afraid.”
“We were both shattered. We were broken people who longed to be whole. We thought it was love that was driving us to do what we did. But it wasn't love. It was fear. We were both too afraid of endin...”
“Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah”
“But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn,...”
“Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future”
“Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.”
“The only thing she could do now was to shed a few tears, feeling rather afraid of herself, an intelligent young woman, who had everything going for her, but who tended to make the wrong decisions. ...”
“Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you.”
“Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!”
