The morning was full of sunlight and hope.
~ Kate Chopin
Hope is a delicate thing. A dangerous thing.
~ Ally Carter
You, on the other hand, wish to know things. And no one can forgive a girl for that.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Her fear was strong, but her need for the truth was stronger.
I do not fear pain.
~ Victoria Aveyard
But that's the thing about being the girl who's spent years convincing the world she's not afraid of anything: At some point, someone is going to find out you're afraid of everything.
The thing is--fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
~ William Golding
You think you walk, Lucy? I think you fly. You see yourself in a uniform? I see you in a cape. You're a hero, of the quietest but most genuine nature.
~ Kiera Cass
Every day you say something or do something that challenges me, changes me.
Home isn't a place. Home is the people who love you most, the people who will always love you, forever and ever, no matter what.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.
I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I'm afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever changes.
It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.
~ Nick Lake
But compare the hardest day's work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its way into spiders' stomachs, and thank your stars that your head has got something it must think of, and your hands something that they must do.
~ Wilkie Collins
Change is a good thing. It's good to have a fresh start, even if it's painful sometimes.
~ Jen Calonita
Home is the people who love you.
Home isn't a place. It's not having a bed to come home to, or a yard, or a Christmas tree at the holidays. Home is the people who love you.
He's my family, and you don't just push family aside for some itch you want to scratch. That's not how real love works. Real love is support, even when you're fighting. Real love in honesty, even when the truth hurts like hell. Real love is being there through every miserable minute and every indefinite minute.
~ Aimee Carter
We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.
~ Gail Carriger
You have been given a great power. But no power comes without a price. That is how magic works. How the universe works. All things kept in balance.
~ Mindee Arnett
So Santa Claus is bogus but Grim Reapers are the genuine article. What does that say about the world?
She had resolved to never take another step backward.
They got to live before they can afford to die.
~ John Steinbeck
I will never forget your fire. I can't wait to see what you do.
It's always going to get better someday. Sometime in the future, things won't be so crazy.
~ Rachel Hawkins
What's happened has happened. You can't change the past. All you can do is work on making a brighter future.
The future is never fixed, but always in flux until the moment it meets with the present.
Words can lie. See beyond them.
She liked the words, they satisfied her famine for phrases.
~ William Dean Howells
You can't pray a lie--I found that out.
~ Mark Twain
Sometimes, the most dangerous people were the ones you trusted most.
That's what trust is. It's about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Trust your gut, and don't let fear get the best of you.
~ Anna Jarzab
Trust is a lot to ask of someone.
The trouble with him was that he was without imagination.
~ Jack London
Once you laugh with a person? That person is your friend.
~ Susan Nussbaum
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
~ James Madison
There must be something in books, things we can't imagine.
~ Ray Bradbury
Travel always excited her--the strong and unfamiliar smells, the movement, the anxiety of arrival and departure times, she shouting of conductors, the idea of her tired old self changed by ever new surroundings.
~ Anna Godbersen