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23 quotes
American novelist
“The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope.”
"One of the first lessons a warrior is taught is that denial of one's circumstances only results in failure to recognize real danger."
on Courage
"Life took the strongest root with a little bit of rain and a whole lot of shit for fertilizer."
on Life
"When anything is possible, how do you choose?"
on Philosophy
"It's our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for."
on Identity
"We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trials , or fractured by a permanent, damming fault line."
on Resilience
"One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence."
on Love
"Strength wasn‘t about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it."
on Strength
"It's what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are."
"Failure is always new information, and those who are willing to suffer it repeatedly make it a stepping-stone to success."
on Success
"Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky."
on Leadership
"It's funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places."
"I'd never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain poignancy, a necessary tension."
on Death
"One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can't breathe around it and you realize you don't need air."
"Your race devotes itself to justifying its errors, not correcting them"
on Truth
"Love hath no pride."
"Friends don’t build cages for each other."
on Relationships
"You can’t give somebody faith. They either got it or they don’t."
on Faith
"Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did."
"Grief shared was grief lessened."
on Grief
"I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself."
on Writing
