They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
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Tom Bodett
I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken. But I...
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Lana Del Rey
But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable.
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Penelope Fitzgerald
But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.
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Patrick Rothfuss
I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I saw what had happened to me and who I was and the way things would always be for me. Truth. There was no...
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Markus Zusak
More Quotes By N.K. Jemisin
For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.
You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.
Syl Anagist's assimilation of the world had been over a century before I was ever made; all cities were Syl Anagist. All languages had become Sylanagistine. But there were none so frightened, or so strange in their fear, as conquerors. They conjure phantoms endlessly, terrified...
I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying with a god wasn't something I had considered, but it did not surprise me. A mortal man's strength had its limits. He spent...
In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds. This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.
