“we hold our fate in our hands. We always have a choice. Don’t settle for less than the future that you dream of with”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Gate of Night
“I will wait for you, Vivienne. I don’t care how many centuries it takes before you’re ready, but I will wait for you.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Gate of Night
“You are who you choose to be. No matter how much light is shed upon you, if you still choose to remain in darkness, that’s your doing, not anyone else’s.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Gate of Night
“Pawn or queen, they’re just pieces to be yanked around by whoever is playing the game.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Gate of Night
“That’s because you’re doing all the talking. Frankly,”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Gate of Night
“Yes. Tonight’s the night, Sofia.” He”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Gate of Night
“No one ever said this marriage was going to be fair,”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Gate of Night
“It had been months since I was taken from The Shade.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Gate of Night
“It’s a controlling obsession. It accomplishes nothing.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Gate of Night
“I wanted to always be in control and yet it was so clear to me that my life—much more the lives of those I loved—was never meant to be manageable.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Gate of Night
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“I think I would have missed you even if we'd never met.”
― Lindy Zart, quote from Unlit Star
“no word in the Hebrew language of that period for “religion.” Religion was not a separate, identifiable category of beliefs and activities. It was an inseparable, pervasive part of life.”
― Richard Elliott Friedman, quote from Who Wrote the Bible?
“Why?’ asked Jack. ‘Because I chopped the man’s head off.”
― Chris Bradford, quote from The Way of the Dragon
“But Viv, if I've learned anything at all in the last eight years of my life? It's that people just like to tell themselves stories about where they came from. They can't help themselves. They don't trust the world around them--it's too good for them, or not good enough--so they tell themselves stories about it. They tell themselves an old magician who lives up in the sky made them out of clay and put them here until whenever he makes up his mind to take them out again. Your parents didn't like their creation myth, that's all--it had pain in it, and chaos, and their own parents were ashamed. So they told themselves a story that was at least partially true: about two good people who deserved happy lives. And probably at some point they started to believe that story. But the thing is, really, that it doesn't matter. For your parents or anyone else. It doesn't actually matter where we came from, or where we're going, or when. The only thing that matters is what we have to do while we're here and how well we do it.”
― Katie Coyle, quote from Vivian Apple at the End of the World
“As a Jewish kid during those times, I fought to live every day. I didn't have a choice. As an influential Nazi, Schindler did have a choice. Countless times he could have abandoned us, taken his fortune, and fled. He could have decided that his life depended on working us to death but he didn't. Instead, he put his own life in danger every time he protected us for no other reason than it was the right thing to do. I am not a philosopher, but I believe that Oskar Schindler defines heroism. He proves that one person can stand up to evil and make a difference. I am living proof of that. I recall a television interview I once saw with scholar and writer Joseph Campbell. I've never forgotten his definition of a hero. Campbell said that a hero is an ordinary human being who does "the best of things in the worst of times". Oskar Schindler personifies that definition.”
― quote from The Boy on the Wooden Box
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