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“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?

it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.”
― Warsan Shire

“It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball.”
― Henryk Sienkjewicz

“I don't know how he calmed me down without even talking, but he did. Some people just have a calming presence about them and he's one of those people.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Man鈥檚 mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch 鈥� or build a cyclotron 鈥� without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must think.
鈥淏ut to think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call 鈥榟uman nature,鈥� the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact that man is a being of volitional consciousness. Reason does not work automatically; thinking is not a mechanical process; the connections of logic are not made by instinct. The function of your stomach, lungs, or heart is automatic; the function of your mind is not. In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort. But you are not free to escape from your nature, from the fact that reason is your means of survival 鈥� so that for you, who are a human being, the question 鈥榯o be or not to be鈥� is the question 鈥榯o think or not to think.鈥� . . .
鈥淢an has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. . . Man must obtain his knowledge and choose his actions by a process of thinking, which nature will not force him to perform. Man has the power to act as his own destroyer 鈥� and that is the way he has acted through most of his history (pages 1012-1013).”
― Ayn Rand

“I guess it could be worse. My name could be Tlaquepaque, or Irkutsk, or Pyongyang. Or, you know, Pittsburgh. Sometimes I flip through the atlas just to remind myself of all the names that would be worse than mine.”
― Tamara Summers, Save the Date

“I have a new found respect for Atlas.”
― Solange nicole

“Believe me, Lily. I know that wasn't a pity fuck. I was there.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“only the dead keep secrets."

"it is not easy. Taking a life, even when we knew it was required."

"most people want only to be cared for. If I had no softness, I'd get nowhere at all."

"a flaw of humanity. The compulsion to be unique, which is at war with the desire to belong to a single identifiable sameness."

"someone always gains, just like someone always loses."

"most women are less in love with the partners they choose than they are simply desperate for their approval, starving for their devotion. They want most often to be touched as no one else can touch them, and most of them inaccurately assume this requires romance. But the moment we realize we can feel fulfilled without carrying the burdens of belonging to another, that we can experience rapture without being someone's other half, and therefore beholden to their weaknesses, to their faults and failures and their many insufferable fractures, then we're free, aren't we? "

" enough, for once, to feel, and nothing else. "

" there was no stopping what one person could believe. "

" I noticed that if I did certain things, said things in certain way, or held her eye contact while I did them, I could make her... Soften toward me. "

" I think I've already decided what I'm going to do, and I just hope it's the right thing. But it isn't, or maybe it is. But I suppose it doesn't matter, because I've already started, and looking back won't help. "

" luck is a matter of probabilities. "

"you want to believe that your hesitation makes you good, make you feel better? It doesn't. Every single one of us is missing something. We are all too powerful, too extraordinary, and don't you see it's because we're riddled with vacancies? We are empty and trying to fill, lighting ourselves on fire just to prove that we are normal, that we are ordinary. That we, like anything, can burn. "

" ask yourself where power comes from, if you can't see the source, don't trust it. "

" an assassin acting on his own internal compass. Whether he lived or died as a result of his own choice? Unimportant. He didn't raise an army didn't fight for good, didn't interfere much with the queen's other evils. It was whether or not he could live with his own decision because life was the only thing that truly matters. "

" the truest truth : mortal lifetimes were short, inconsequential. Convictions were death sentences. Money couldn't buy happiness, but nothing could buy happiness, so at least money could buy everything else. In term of finding satisfaction, all a person was capable of controlling was himself. "

" humans were mostly sensible animals. They knew the dangers of erratic behavior. It was a chronic condition, survival. My intention is as same as others. Stand taller, think smarter, be better. "

" she couldn't remember what version of her had put herself into that relationship, into that life, or somehow into this shape, which still looked and felt as it always had but wasn't anymore. "

" conservative of energy meant that there must be dozens of people in the world who didn't exist because of she did. "

" what replace feelings when there were none to be had? "

" the absence of something was never as effective as the present of something. "

"To be suspended in nothing, he said, was to lack all motivation, all desire. It was not numbness which was pleasurable in fits, but functional paralysis. Neither to want to live nor to die, but to never exist. Impossible to fight."

"apology accepted. Forgiveness, however, declined."

"there cannot be success without failure. No luck without unluck."

"no life without death?"

"Everything collapse, you will, too. You will, soon.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“We look to the sky,
in search of fortune
as our feet bleed
across Atlas鈥� traps.

In deep dug holes,
a lingering groove
voices the wisdom
of its adventurer.

[Atlas鈥� Groove]”
― Susan L. Marshall, Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall

“Still, this atlas breathes,
amidst the loss and sparks,
a world that ebbs
and seeks its flow.
Its paths unclear,
yet set in time
at traveller鈥檚 will.

[Atlas鈥� Groove]”
― Susan L. Marshall, Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall

“Wendell and I would spend the next several months traveling his realm. Our realm. I must get used to that. I would take copious notes all the while, no doubt filling several of the ridiculous journals the bookbinders kept churning out, and stumbling across so many research questions it would take me ten lifetimes to tackle them all. And after that, who knows? I have my compendium of tales to finish--- I plan to gather stories as Wendell and I travel, adding them to the small hoard I've already collected. My presence is not required in the mortal world until October, when I will be delivering a presentation on several key findings in my map-book, which shall be published in a month's time. When the Berlin Academy of Folklorists sends you an invitation to their annual conference, you cannot say no.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales

“The influence of William Shakespeare on the English language and literature can hardly be
exaggerated. His life spanned A.D. 1564 to 1616 and he made a name for himself as a poet and playwright. Creating such memorable works as Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, he has
become the most-quoted author of the English-speaking world. Because of this, many of the words and phrases he used or coined are still in use today. His plays are still studied and performed.”
― Craig Froman, Children's Atlas of God's World

“Train hard, for worlds are heavy”
― ddekaristw

“Train hard, for worlds are heavy.”
― ddekaristw

“Train hard, for worlds are heavy.”
― Kratistw

“Prepare well, for worlds are heavy.”
― Kratistw

“Prepare well, for worlds hold great weight.”
― Kratistw

“A veces las personas piensas que, si aman a alguien roto con la suficiente intensidad, lograr谩n repararlo, pero no es as铆. Lo mas probable es que la otra persona acabe igual de rota.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“He will have the throne and he would break it into two to make two seats for two kings to rule.”
― Gauri Sharma, Of Vengeance and Ashes

“He would never lose his only friend and family for something so materialistic. He was even fine if Rufus wanted the whole throne, he would become the seneschal and guide him in times of misery.”
― Gauri Sharma, Of Vengeance and Ashes

“He didn鈥檛 care if he would be a villain in Alastor鈥檚 eyes. He had made peace with the fact a long time ago that he cannot control the way someone narrates their side of the story. The world had forced him to grow up he never knew what being truly free and careless was. He was the grandchild of the witches they burnt, so he would make the world a purgatory so his soul could feel warm.”
― Gauri Sharma, Of Vengeance and Ashes

“He smiled. "This is all going into your book, isn't it?"
"I was not even thinking about my book," I said defensively--- I was only half lying. With my encyclopaedia complete, I have, as Wendell knows, turned my attention to another large project--- creating a mapbook of all the known faerie realms, as well as their doors. Such a book will be a patchwork thing, unavoidably so--- faerie realms are often attached to specific geographical locations in the mortal world, though only a few have been explored in a meaningful way--- but I wish to use it to argue Danielle de Grey's point: that the realms are more interconnected than previous scholarship has suggested. Finding evidence of the nexus would be the linchpin of the entire project.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde鈥檚 Map of the Otherlands

“I had several sketches drafted for my mapbook--- my intention for the first edition was to focus on the best known faerie kingdoms of Western Europe, scouring the literature for references to their doors. Some doors have been documented; more have not, or exist as rumors. While it's true that many faerie kingdoms are tied to specific mortal regions, others are more nebulous, and a tale may place one at the edge of a village a hundred miles from the setting of a later iteration of the same story.
I am aware that mine is no easy task, given that faerie doors can and do move, and what I will accomplish is likely to be a mere snapshot of Faerie during this particular era. Even so, it will be a monumental achievement for scholarship, something for others to build upon--- particularly if I can produce evidence of such disputed doors as the nexus.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde鈥檚 Map of the Otherlands

“We will be taking a long sabbatical from Cambridge, both of us. Wendell does not believe he will return, and why would he? The scholarly life was for him merely the means to an end, the end being finding a way back to his home. But I know that I will, if only from time to time. Perhaps a semester here, a semester there. A tenured scholar has a great deal of freedom, after all, and once the article I have written on my journey into the Silva Lupi (much redacted and condensed, of course) appears in next month's issue of Modern Dryadology, Cambridge will be all the more eager to retain me. Rose, who acted as co-author, and actually deigned to allow my name to appear first in the publication, is certain it will send the scholarly community into a tizzy.
And also--- I will have my mapbook to publish.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde鈥檚 Map of the Otherlands

“Forty-nine years of age. Left-handed. Limp originating from the left knee. Multiple hidden knives in his moth-colored light armor. Lack of ego projection, indicating absence of insecurity in body and deeds. Sociopathy? Delusions of heroism? No. That's usually supported by zeal. Why so distant? Extremely lonely? Tired? Bored? Distracted? Absent in his personal presentation is the theatricality o this public work. Which suggests a sophisticated system of operation, likely supported but he books in his library, and perhaps a personal philosophical treatise. This is philosopher-torturer with practical detachment of a pug butcher.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“Distance has sanitized was nearly as much as Stoneside's cooking rambling. It has made it easy... romantic. I have no interest in sanitization nor romance. I apply scientific methods to produce psychological trauma in our enemies in order to create psychological casualties. To end their willingness to fight and shorten the war. This is my purpose.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“Let's say you did manage to subdue me. Possible, given your youth, but not probable, given your state and my vocation.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“醿愥儬 醿涐儩醿涐儸醿濁儨醿�, 醿犪儩醿儛 醿儞醿樶儦醿濁儜醿斸儨, 醿♂儤醿⑨儳醿曖償醿戓儤醿� 醿愥儨 醿愥儢醿犪償醿戓儤醿� 醿涐儩醿樶優醿濁儠醿濁儨 醿♂儺醿曖償醿戓儤醿� 醿溼儞醿濁儜醿�. 醿椺儯 醿欋儛醿儤 醿炨儛醿⑨儤醿濁儭醿溼儛醿� 醿樶儱醿償醿曖儛, 醿溼儞醿濁儜醿樶儭 醿儤醿溼儛醿♂儸醿愥儬 醿涐儩醿炨儩醿曖償醿戓儛 醿愥儬 醿♂儹醿樶儬醿撫償醿戓儛, 醿涐儤醿♂儤 醿♂儛醿メ儶醿樶償醿氠儤醿� 醿犪儛醿儤醿濁儨醿愥儦醿ａ儬醿� 醿愥儨醿愥儦醿樶儢醿樶儶 醿♂儛醿欋儧醿愥儬醿樶儭醿樶儛. 醿曖儤醿溼儶 醿儞醿樶儦醿濁儜醿�, 醿♂儺醿曖儛 醿愥儞醿愥儧醿樶儛醿溼儤醿� 醿溼儞醿濁儜醿� 醿撫儛醿樶儧醿♂儛醿儯醿犪儩醿�, 醿涐儛醿� 醿ａ優醿愥儮醿樶儩醿♂儨醿� 醿栣儬醿愥儺醿曖償醿戓儤 醿愥儱醿曖儭, 醿椺儯醿溼儞醿愥儶 醿愥儧醿愥儴醿� 醿♂儛醿欋儯醿椺儛醿� 醿椺儛醿曖儭醿愥儶 醿愥儬 醿ａ儮醿п儞醿斸儜醿濁儞醿斸儭.”
― Ayn Rand, ATLAS SHRUGGED

“There is a region in the experience of pain where the certainty of alleviation often permits superhuman endurance.”
― William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness