“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.”

― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

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“'Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?' 'Nothing, precious . . . they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.'”

― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses—bound for dust—mortal”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“I was consumed by the mystery Edward presented. And more than a little obsessed by Edward himself. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I wasn't as eager to escape Forks as I should be, as any normal, sane person would be.”

― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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