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"They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it." - Ocean Vuong (On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous)

“No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.”

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." - André Gide

“Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.” - Guillermo del Toro

“Coffee—a barbaric drink. That poor, tortured bean. All that fermenting and husking and roasting and grinding. And what is tea? Tea is dried leaves rehydrated. Just add water, Mrs. Strickland. All living things need water.” - Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

"I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else."

"Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it." - Ocean Vuong (On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous)

"You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty." - Ocean Vuong (On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous)

"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?" - David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas)

“Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.” - Guillermo del Toro, The Fall

"Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." - Bill Willingham (Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland)

"My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men." - Jodi Picoult (The Storyteller)

“Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic” - Guillermo del Toro, The Night Eternal

“You deserve better than this. You deserve people who value you. You deserve to go somewhere where you can be proud of who you are.” - Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water