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Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
Can I help you with something?"Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you."Jace assumed an air of mellow gratification. "Of course they are," he said, "I am stunningly attractive.
If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!
Some people have lives; some people have music.
Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?"He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" -- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?"I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.