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"The bent but unbroken ones."
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"Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!"
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"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."
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"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
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"I have danced too deeply in my shadows, to ever fear the walk of my sunshine."
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"The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live."
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"Sometimes walking away has nothing do with weakness, and everything to do with strength. We walk away not because we want others to realize our worth and value, but because we finally realize our own."
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"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
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"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
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"When you put fear behind the wheel, you're bound to crash, but when you drive in faith the ride will be rough, but preceding into a journey of your lifetime."
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"Better hazard once than always be in fear."
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"This is what the Others have done to us. You can't band together to fight without trust. And without trust, there was no hope. How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity."
Humanity

"It kills me. The way he trusted. LIke the way we trusted before they came and blue the whole goddamned world apart. Trusted that when it got dark there would be light. Trusted that when you wanted a fucking strawberry Frappuccino you could plop your ass in the car, drive down the streed, and get yourself a fucking strawberry Frappuccino!"
Trust

"We're here, and then we're gone, and it's not about the time we're here, but what we do with the time."
Life

"We regarded each other across an expanse wider than the universe, within a space thinner than a razor's edge."
Relationship

"In the 4th Wave, you can't trust that people are still people. But you can trust that your gun is still your gun."
Survival

"Beyond their immaculate design, the reason sharks rule the ocean is their complete indifference to everything except feeding, procreation, and defending their territory. The shark does not love. It feels no empathy. It trusts nothing. It lives in perfect harmony with its environment because it has no aspirations or desires. And no pity. A shark feels no sorrow, no remorse, hopes for nothing, dreams of nothing, has no illusions about itself or anything beyond itself."
Nature

"The world is a clock winding down.I hear it in the wind's icy fingers scratching against the window. I smell it in the mildewed carpeting and the rotting wallpaper of the old hotel. And I feel it in Teacup's chest as she sleeps. The hammering of her heart, the rhythm of her breath, warm in the freezing air, the clock winding down."
Philosophical

"Onto his stomach. Then knees. Then hands. His elbows quivered, his wrists threatened to buckle under his own weight. Self-centered, stubborn, sentimental, childish, vain. I am humanity. Cynical, naive, kind, cruel, soft as down, hard as tungsten steel.I am humanityHe crawled.I am humanity.He fell.I am humanity.He got up."
Humanity

"Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end."
Art

"Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortune's slings and arrows."
Despair
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