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"Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself."
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"I think people give up, because it's the easy option, but my goodness; why would giving up be easy? Your living your life chasing anything to fill the void of what came about when you let go of everything that mattered? I'd rather fight like mad, for everything that will ever matter, because giving in to anything that doesn't will never cure the dream."

"Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing."

"Sometimes the further away the target, the less you have to try to get there."

"Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering."

"When you get a pinch and decide to give up, you will get a cut when you eventually do so. The consequences of giving up are more harmful than the causes. Just don't give up!"

"Persistence creates genius; without persistence, there is no winner."

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

"To pray is to make petition."

"Take the broken pieces of your life, bake a master cake out of it. Don't stand still like a lake; keep flowing like a stream!"

"The number one skill in life is not giving up."
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"Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?"

"All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good."

"I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print."

"To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap. And if you don't make the leap you have only three choices: You can hate yourself for not taking the chance, you can hate the person from whom you've sacrificed your happiness, or you can hate the one who offered you happiness, and blame them for your lack of courage, convince yourself it wasn't real."

"You should never attack a necromancer in a cemetery, it's like chasing Rambo into a building full of loaded guns. Some people seem to help you kill them."
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