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46 quotes
American author
“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
"It was books that made me feel that perhaps I wasn't completely alone."
on Literature
"You couldn't speak to fear, couldn't tell it the truth: Fear lived in your bones."
on Fear
"Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read."
on Life
"Words have the power to change us." - Tessa Gray"
on Writing
"In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did."
"to love is to destroy and that to be loved is the one to be destroyed"
on Love
"He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your soul shatter."
"We live and breathe words."
on Language
"Everyone has choices to make no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love.."
on Freedom
"You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it."
on Self Awareness
"There is more to living than not dying."
"Love could be a last hope and a star to steer by."
"She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one."
on Happiness
"They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite"
on Time
"People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters."
"No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily."
on Death
"You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all."
on Resilience
"He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it."
"In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't."
"that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything."
