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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. –Haruki Murakami

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“Justice seemed so little, so late.”

— Nettle and Bone, T. Kingfisher

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“To do something for someone or something you loved wasn’t a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.”

— Connie Willis, All Clear

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“I’m afraid it never stops hurting.”

— Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee (via courageous-pages)

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“If the act of love is so dangerous, why do people risk so much for it?”

— Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni

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“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”

— Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

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“The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.”

— Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

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“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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“It is only with that heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”

— Madeleine L’Engle (via courageous-pages)

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“It’s a gift if it makes us better. It’s a curse if we let it destroy us.”

— N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

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“We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.”

— Madeleine L’Engle (via courageous-pages)

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“Those who are never afraid can never be brave.”

— Katherine Roberts, Crystal Mask (via courageous-pages)

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“Can it be true that freedom only exists when it is a treasure, shared by all?”

— Margarita Engle, The Surrender Tree

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“Doing the right thing doesn’t always save you.”

— Guy Gavriel Kay, Children of Earth and Sky

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“We live among mysteries. Love is one, there are others. We must not imagine we know all there is to know about the world.”

— Guy Gavriel Kay, Children of Earth and Sky

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“We cannot know. But sometimes there is kindness, and sometimes there is love.”

— Guy Gavriel Kay, Children of Earth and Sky