It took 3.8 billion years
of triumphant evolution,
remarkable collision,
an unbelievable confluence
made by sheer will and influence
of this infinite universe
and all of the stars
to get you here.

I hope you never doubt again
that even when you are in pain,
that you are a miracle,
that every part of you is incredible.

The paper called Eli a hero.
The word made Victor laugh. Not just because it was absurd, but because it posed a question. If Eli really was a hero, and Victor meant to stop him, did that make him a villain?

Victor Vale was not a fucking sidekick.

You can't live in fear. You make things happen or they happen to you.

You do not enter a race to lose.

Sisters in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I live, your cause is mine.

We can’t help the way we’re born. We can’t help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves.

We cannot spend our lives in hiding, wondering what we might accomplish if given the chance. We have to take that chance ourselves.

All doorways, before going forward, should be locked. For it is difficult to know where foes may sit within a dwelling.

Secrets are not meant to be kept, they’re meant to be broken.

Hope is a foolish thing ― it makes us believe in the things we never thought possible.

There is such strength in being a woman. But it is a strength you must choose for yourself. No one can choose it for you.

You are first and foremost a person. A reckless, foolish person, but a person nonetheless. If I ever say you are not permitted to do something, rest assured that the last reason I would ever say so would be because you are a girl.

True weakness is weakness of the spirit.

Be as swift as the wind. As silent as the forest. As fierce as the fire. As unshakable as the mountain. And you can do anything…

He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn’t sleep at all.

“Strange the dreamer,” they called him. “That dreamer, Strange.”

His nose was broken by a falling volume of fairy tales his first day on the job, and that, they said, told you everything you needed to know about strange Lazlo Strange: head in the clouds, world of his own, fairy tales and fancy. That was what they meant when they called him a dreamer, and they weren’t wrong, but they missed the main point.

The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around.

The more characters you meet, the more character you build. The more colorful your story, the more colorful your life.

We’re all human. We all want to feel part of something greater.

Asking for help is never a sign of weakness. It’s one of the bravest things you can do. And it can save your life.

I value myself. I respect myself. I appreciate myself. I accept myself. I love myself. Always and forever.

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them.”

I will never need anyone to complete me. I am enough on my own.

I’ve realized that whenever I feel self-conscious about any of my quirks, it’s because I assume people are judging me. That’s where the danger lies. You damage your own self-image when you compare yourself to others and to what you see in the media.