And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.
I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.
If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.
Retribution is a dog chasing its tail.
I refuse to let the past find me here.
People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.
There are no safe choices. Only other choices.
The hand you hold the longest is your own.
We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be.
Women who have power are always feared.
Write like it matters, and it will.
I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.
Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.
To those who will see, the world waits.
You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.
Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.
I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.
I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.
Men have feelings too, you know. You bruise the petals of my manflower.
The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.
What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?
Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.
I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could imagine.
That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.
And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.
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