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Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. -Laurence J. Peter

Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign... to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very skin. –Albus Dumbledore, in ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ by J.K. Rowling

Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong. -Oscar Wilde

You can love someone so much, he thought. But you can never love people as much as you can miss them. –Colin Singleton, in ‘An Abundance of Katherines’ by John Green

I hate this. I hate being here. I hate that you have to be here. I hate that there’s evil and that I was chosen to fight it. I wish a whole lot of the time that I hadn’t been. I know a lot of you wish I hadn’t been, either. This isn’t about wishes. This is about choices. I believe we can beat this evil. Not when it comes. Not when its army is ready. Now. Tomorrow morning, I’m opening the seal. I’m going down into the Hellmouth and I am finishing this once and for all. Right now, you’re asking yourself what makes this different. What makes us anything more than a bunch of girls being picked off one by one? It’s true. None of you have the power that Faith and I do. So here’s the part where you make a choice. What if you could have that power, now? In every generation, one slayer is born, because a bunch of men who died thousands of years ago made up that rule. They were powerful men. This woman is more powerful than all of them combined. So I say we change the rule. I say my power, should be OUR power. Tomorrow, Willow will use the essence of this scythe to change our destiny. From now on, every girl in the world who might be a slayer, will be a slayer. Every girl who could have the power, will have the power. Can stand up, will stand up. Slayer, every one of us. Make your choice. Are you ready to be strong? –Buffy Summers, in ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’

In this heap of jewels, Helen Hoover Boyle would say, are the ghosts of everyone who has ever owned them. Everyone rich and successful enough to prove it. All of their talent and intelligence and beauty, out lived by decorative junk. All the success and accomplishment this jewelry was supposed to represent, it’s all vanished. -Carl Streator, in 'Lullaby' by Chuck Palahniuk

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. -Bertrand Russell

Tell me what company you keep, and I’ll tell you what you are. -Miguel de Cervantes

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. -Logan Pearsall Smith

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power. -Harriet Martineau

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else. -G.K. Chesterton

There’s small choice in rotten apples. -William Shakespeare

We are always getting ready to live, but never living. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be man enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women. -Theodore Reik

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. -Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage may be compared to a cage: the birds outside despair to get in and those within despair to get out. -Michel de Montaigne

I’m full, but I could eat more. -Sonya Thomas [after eating 7 3/4 pounds of holiday food in 12 minutes and defeating two 400-pound rivals (Thomas weighed only 106 pounds).]