Top 140 Jennifer A. Nielsen Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.”

— Jennifer A. Nielsen

2. “We’ll all die one day – no one escapes that fate. Our only decision is how we live before that day comes.”

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3. “Everyone gets scared at times. It’s only the fools who won’t admit it.”

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4. “Books themselves are freedom. Freedom to think, to believe, to dream.”

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5. “Be loyal to the thing you know is right. Never bend to weakness, never yield to a false crown.”

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6. “Nobody gives you respect in this life. You must take it, you must earn it, and then you must hold it sacred, because no matter how hard respect is to attain, it can be lost in an instant.” I nodded my head toward the garrison. “Go get it, Roden. People won’t follow a leader who doesn’t know where he’s going. Show them what you do.”

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7. “Knowledge is a powerful weapon.”

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8. “Life doesn’t give us what we want. It gives us what we need and asks what we will do with it.”

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9. “Long live king Jaron. If he leads us half as well as he entertains us, then Carthya has a truly great future ahead.”

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10. “It’s easy to hate what you don’t understand.”

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11. “If I cannot speak what I think, then it’s a crime just to be me.”

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12. “One to Vanquish One to Rule One to Fall But All to Fool.”

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13. “Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light.”

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14. “This wasn’t a good idea. Which was the very reason to do it.”

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15. “I realized that I couldn’t expect them to think better of me that I thought of myself. So if I believed I was too young or stupid or inexperienced to be a captain, then that’s all I would ever be.”

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16. “My grandfather just called you a pig,” I said. “You are many things, Decimas Brutus, but not a pig.” He hesitated. “No, I am not. Thank you.” “After all,” I added, “that comparison is a terrible insult to pigs.”

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17. “In the knowing, there was peace.”

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18. “It’s better that your queen pretends to love you, because if she truly did, she would only love a lie.”

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19. “No one should have to hurt alone.”

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20. “The resistance was not about who lived and who died. It was about the way we lived, and the way we would die when our time came.”

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21. “We all at risk of becoming the snake one day. The moment we start to choose what’s easy or safe, instead of choosing what’s right, we start to become the snake.”

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22. “Valuable lessons were code words for pain that no one apologized for.”

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23. “If I had to do it over again, I would not have chosen this life. Then again, I’m not sure I ever had a choice.”

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24. “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. – Albert Camus, French author D.”

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25. “I’m in love with you, Aurelia. The kind of love where at first I couldn’t get you out of my head, and after that, I never wanted to. The kind of love where I would take a thousand more whippings if it meant I’d have you at the end of it.”

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26. “I’d always looked down on the world through diamond-studded windows. She’d looked up at the world through salt glass. Despite those differences, we were both looking in from the outside.”

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27. “The pirates wanted my life, Vargen wanted my country, and my regents wanted to paint rainbows over reality and claim all was well.”

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28. “All right,” I said. “We’ll agree to trust each other.” It was a lie.”

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29. “Don’t give up, Sage, and don’t give in to him. Please. A lot of us are watching you, and we need to see that it’s possible to win.”

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30. “It had been a long time since i dared call anyone a friend. The concept was only theoretical to me now.”

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31. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. – Nelson Mandela, South African activist.”

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32. “Enough of us must survive the war to tell our stories, and every story will matter. When they remember our stories, they will forget their hatred.”

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33. “If he put us in dresses, we wouldn’t suddenly become women.”

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34. “I am commanded by the king of Avenia to give you one last order and so I shall. Hear me now and always. Be loyal to the thing you know is right. Never bend to weakness, never yield to a false crown. Right will always triumph in the end, and you will want to be on that side when it does.”

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35. “I never let myself believe in a future where evil wins. Because if I do, then everything I’ve done, everything you and I are still doing, is for nothing. We need to believe in a future where love is stronger than hate. Where peace is normal.”

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36. “The last thing I needed was rational thought.”

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37. “I can’t do that,” I said. “Who’ll make sure Tobias gets back safely? He can hardly cross a road without endangering himself.”

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38. “If i had to do it all over again, I would not have chosen this life.”

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39. “At Farthenwood, lies and truth blur together.”

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40. “If I don’t stand for freedom, then I must sit in chains.”

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41. “May we never forget. May we live with honor at all times, regardless of our circumstances. And may we choose love, a weapon that will defeat hate every single time. Love is the resistance.”

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42. “Our country is Germany – one country that should be reunited. We don’t belong to Moscow or to the west. We belong to ourselves and I have never betrayed that. This tunnel has taken every ounce of courage we have. We’re not cowards.”

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43. “Our family was like a house of cards in a stiff wind. And when it became too much to feel the pain of our collapse, all I could do was become angry.”

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44. “You are playing the traitor’s game, and no matter how well one wins, even the winner loses in the end.”

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45. “I couldn’t see much, but it somehow seemed brighter across the wall, as if the sun gave more of it’s light to the west. Maybe the people there were more selfish, I thought. Because we needed that sunlight far more than they did.”

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46. “This early morning light had not ended the long, dark night. No. For us, the dark night had only begun.”

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47. “We called it Communist Gray. It was the color of our buildings, our markets, our streets. The color of the wall. Even the skies were gray today. Somehow the GDR must have figured out how to bleach that out too.”

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48. “Individuality was a weakness, a sickness of the west. So we all walked in step, eyes ahead, and with conversations at a minimum. We.”

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49. “It’s not just wishing, Audra. This is a book of ideas. Someone thought the idea and put it into words on paper. That became a seed, and every time someone reads those words, the seed is planted in their mind, too, and it grows and spreads and soon that tiny seed of an idea becomes belief, and belief becomes a plan, and those plans begin to change the world. Control the books and you will control the people.”

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50. “A death camp. Sara was barely eight years old. She knew nothing of war or violence. She’d fallen victim to a level of hatred she couldn’t begin to comprehend.”

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