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1 " Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like. "
― Parker S. Huntington , Devious Lies (Cruel Crown, #1)
2 " You see, Princess Lily harbored a dark secret. The books she read were pirated "
3 " If I tell you anything worth learning, it’s this. Love is the most expensive thing you’ll ever own. You pay for it with grief, tears, and a piece of your soul, but in return, you receive happiness, memories, and life. "
4 " The existence of a word proves that someone in the history of humanity felt the same way I did and gave it a name. It means we’re not alone. If there’s a word for what we're feeling, we’re never alone. "
5 " Ya’aburnee is Arabic for you bury me. It is the hope that you will die before your one true love because you cannot bear to live without them. "
6 " People assume strength is loud. In reality, strength is silent. It is resilience, the will to never surrender your dignity. And sometimes, the only person who knows strength exists inside you is you. "
7 " Falling in love with you is like diving blindly into a book, not knowing it’s destined to be my favorite. Whatever’s more than love, I feel it for you. I am only ever going to be in love with you. "
8 " I liked being too much because it meant I was never too little. "
9 " Perfection is unattainable. It’s stained by the suffering required to chase it. Perfect is something you think with your head. Lagom is something you feel with your heart. "
10 " Storms will always rage. Don’t run from them. Face them. Some things in life can only be learned in a storm. "
11 " Love is the most expensive thing you’ll ever own. You pay for it with grief, tears, and a piece of your soul, but in return, you receive happiness, memories, and life. "
12 " Don’t succumb to the fire. Be the bigger flame. "
13 " Bolt is a contronym—a word that is opposite itself. If you bolt something, you hold it together. If you bolt, you separate by fleeing. Bolt is a reminder that words were made by humans, and sometimes, humans make mistakes. Mistakes are powerful, not because they have the power to ruin your life, but because they possess the power to make you stronger. "
14 " I never really gave much thought to Fate, but every time I considered how hard the world must have worked to get our paths to intersect so many different ways, I became a believer. "
15 " Tacenda originates from the Latin participle taceo for ‘I am silent’. Taceo is also the verb for ‘I am still or at rest’. Taceo reminds us silence isn’t a sign of weakness. It is a sign of rest, of certainty, of contentment. Silence is the best response to people who don’t deserve your words. "
16 " I don’t want someone who holds an umbrella over my head when it rains. I want someone who doesn't even own an umbrella. Someone who watches me balter in the rain when they don’t know the word exists. Someone who stares at me instead of the stars in the sky. "
17 " People assume strength is loud. In reality, strength is silent. It is resilience, the will to never surrender your dignity. "
18 " I'd been born with a spine, and I fully intended on using it. Flowers wilted. Girls didn't. "
19 " Break me.” She stared at me like she wasn’t completely whole and didn’t entirely care. “Then put me back together, mismatched, scarred, and chaotic as this storm. "
20 " Forgiving others is a myth. The only prisoner freed when you forgive someone is you. "