… when you blame any outside force for any of your experience of life, you are literally giving away all your power and thus creating pain, paralysis and depression.

… to survive something we first need to know what it is we are surviving

… there was only one rule. Work hard and be nice, and everything would go just fine. That should be the rule for life, too, Emily thought. But, of course, that wasn’t how things went.

… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.

… the secret in handling fear is to move yourself from a position of pain to a position of power.

… the paradox is one of our most valued spiritual possessions...

… the great and fundamental principles of their policy are, that every man is naturally free and independent, that no one … on earth has any right to deprive him of his freedom and independency, and t...

… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of their rooms to seek each other o...

… so that you won’t become lazy, but imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and perseverance. Hebrews 6:12

… she claimed it’s a sign of God’s mercy that He won’t let us remember the reddest details of pain. He knows the parts we can’t bear and won’t let our minds render them again. In time, from disuse, th...

… people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually because it was shorter. And it was more colorful, if you liked...

… one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. —Saki

… one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back – that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street.

… my joints ache with fatigue, my dried up body trembles toward its own destruction in turmoils of which I dare not become fully conscious, in my head are astonishing convulsions.

… let yourself go. Sometimes, in India, you have to surrender before you win.

… la muerte, por sí misma, sola, sin ninguna ayuda exterior, siempre ha matado mucho menos que el hombre.

… la actividad creadora se desarrollaba únicamente en su interior y no podía ser percibida por nadie más que por él mismo.

… just to break the silence. He always imagined that silence was somehow directed against him. Or that it was his fault.

… it wasn’t pretend, I wasn’t in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that always accompanies this revelation. It’s the sound of the real world, gigantic and impossibl...

… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger.The sky was dripping.Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.