A Repository of Words

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You are standing there looking out at your options, the icy blue water, the fast-flowing river, and the choppy sea. And they all look appealing to you because you're dying to go for a swim, but you know that water is going to be cold, and the journey is going to be hard, and when you reach the other side, you will have become a new person. And you are scared to meet that new version of yourself. Now, we all get used to our personas and we're used to our own comfort zones, but trust me, in order to live, we must keep daring, keep diving.

Cat Grant, Supergirl 2x1

[qthelogophile]

How do I take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it's as much a part of me as I am?

Elliot Alderson, Mr. Robot 2x1

[qthelogophile]

Compromise where you can. But where you can't, don't. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move. It is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye and say 'No, you move'.

Sharon Carter, Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War

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That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things are harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

Lev Grossman, The Magician King

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

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Everything that's happened to us, good and bad, it made us who we are. And I don't think that I would change it even if I could.

Barry Allen, The Flash 2x21

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I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us.

Monica Bellucci

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Stop wasting your time trying to figure out if it's something you did. Someone like you, with all that fire and passion and loyalty, you deserve much, much better than that.

Lorenzo St. John, The Vampire Diaries 7x19

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You took me out of your sky. So I took you out of my universe.

Najwa Zebian

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There is enough fire inside you to put all hell to shame, but you are pretending to be water for someone who is too afraid to handle the dragons in your belly. Stop crushing the thing that makes you. Embrace the flames. Be whole again for yourself and no one else.

Nikita Gill

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Sometimes the only way to move forward is to revisit the things in your past that were holding you back. You have to deal with them head on, no matter how scary they may be. Because once you do, you'll see that you can go further than you ever imagined.

Barry Allen, The Flash 2x17

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Could I have done more? Possibly. Yes. We can always do more. It's a tough question to answer, and, ultimately, a pointless one to ask.

Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places