My Favorite Quotes

“When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?” 

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.” 

“Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.
No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.” 

“Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.” 

“There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.” 

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.” 

“If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.” 

“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.” 

“Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.” 

“Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.” 

“The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose.” 

“I am what I am because I have made myself so.” 

“He said that seeing and understanding are two different things. Our eyes show us one side of an object, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t five other sides we can’t see. So why trust your eyes? Why live your whole life thinking that just because you can’t see every side to something, those other sides don’t exist?” 

“It's always the fear of looking stupid that stops you from being awesome.” 


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