"Those who really love you don’t mean to hurt you, and if they do, you can’t see it in their eyes, but it hurts them too."
- Holly Black
Love
"Those who really love you don’t mean to hurt you and if they do, you can’t see it in their eyes but it hurts them too."
- Holly Black
Love
"Everyone makes mistakes. They trust the wrong people. They fall in love."
- Holly Black
Love
"Changing is what people do when they have no options left."
- Holly Black
Change
"I raise a plastic glass. “To family.” “And Faerieland,” says Taryn, raising hers. “And pizza,” says Oak. “And stories,” says Heather. “And new beginnings,” says Vivi. Cardan smiles, his gaze on me. “And scheming great schemes.” To family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming great schemes. I can toast to that."
- Holly Black
New Beginnings
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity