“people aren't born good or bad. maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.“
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“people aren't born good or bad. maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.“
“friendship- my definition- is built on two things. respect and trust. both elements have to be there. and it has to be mutual. you can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.“
“everything became amazing; then, everything turned awful. life is always like that - you don't know when you'll suddenly claw your way out of your circumstances, or when you'll go crashing back down into them.“
“it's easy to believe in something when you win all the time... the losses are what define a man's faith.“
“there were two kinds of monsters, the kind that hunted the streets and the kind that lived in your head. she could fight the first, but the second was more dangerous. it was always, always, always a step ahead.“
“imagine going about your day knowing someone‘s carrying you in their mind. that has to be the best part of being in love- the feeling of having a home in some else‘s brain.“
“the irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.“
“it is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. we all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. and yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know.“
“all have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.“
“it's vital to keep a sense of humour when the world seems to have suddenly become a very strange place.“
“never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope.“
“i worry because i care. gods help me, i know i shouldn't, but i do. so i will always tell you to be careful, because i will always care what happens.“
“don't try to comprehend with your mind. your minds are very limited. use your intuition.“
“maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. maybe worth dying for too, if that's what has to be. no good friends. no bad friends. only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.“
“life's too short to pretend and play games like that. i want to spend my time hanging out with people who make me feel good about myself. people who make me happy.“
“loving someone always requires you to not love others.“
“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.“
