He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

— 1984, George Orwell

(Source: magiquotes)

Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.

— Quiet, Susan Cain

(Source: accountedfor, via planets-bend-between-us)

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

— Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare

(Source: magiquotes)

Separated Lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars—all the beauties of creation. And why should they not? All the works of God are designed to serve love, and love has the power to charge all nature with its messages.

— Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

(Source: mmik)

You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody’s one and only.

— The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank

(Source: bookmania, via moderatetroublemaker)

Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end.

— So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell

(Source: fanfickle)

Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it’s so important that we don’t rely on it.

— Tris’s father, Divergent, Veronica Roth

Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up.

— Four, Divergent, Veronica Roth

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

— Gildor, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

— Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring