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  End Quotes - You were saved not by work, but for work   “Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. "Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough.” ― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing   “But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?” ― Franz Kafka   “You get towards the end of life—no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?” ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending   “In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her ba...

  End Quotes - Life's just a bunch of accidents “And that’s when I realize that, at the end, we’d all wish for the same thing. Just a little more time.” ― Marie Lu, Wildcard   “Like a child who saves their favourite food on the plate for last, I try to save all thoughts of you for the end of the day so I can dream with the taste of you on my tongue.” ― Kamand Kojouri   “And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.” ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus   “Life's just a bunch of accidents, connected by one perfect end.” ― Daniel C. Tomas   “And the open road rolled out in front of us.” ― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight   “And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,” let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.” “Todd?” V...

  End Quotes - When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first   “At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.” ― Warsan Shire   “It's better to burn out than to fade away.” ― Neil Young   “But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.” ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains   “For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.” ― Michelle Obama, Becoming   “A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” ― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair   “You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they l...