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“Don't bullshit me, Olan. I know when a girl's getting screwed.”
― Kyle Keyes, Quantum Roots

“If Adam were honest with himself, which he rarely was, he’d come to terms with the fact that beyond his work and the view, he was floundering a bit. His plan had been to take the insurance money, leave his old life behind, and start completely over somewhere new. A place where memories didn’t lurk around every corner.
He hadn’t figured on the memories coming along with him.”
― Kirsten Fullmer

“This smells like a case of driving while black through a
predominately white community.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Black

“I mean, how does that crazy preacher know where the dead go and how the hell does he know the dead like being there? He's trying to make it sound like the only reason we get born is to bite the dust”
― Vera Jane Cook

“People don't know anymore why we've had eight years of war. Why their children have died...This entire war was just a big setup to destroy both the Iranian and the Iraqi armies. The former was the most powerful in the Middle East in 1980, and the latter represented a real danger to Israel. The West sold weapons to both camps and we, we were stupid enough to enter into this cynical game...eight years of war for nothing! So now the state names streets after martyrs to flatter the families of the victims. In this way, perhaps, they'll find some meaning in all this absurdity.”
― Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis

“[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“تخلصت من الوطن ، تخلصت من الكاهن ، تخلصت من الماء . إنني أغربل نفسي . كلما تقدم بي العمر ، غربلت نفسي أكثر . إنني أتطهر ، كيف أقول لك ؟ إنني أتحرر ، إنني أصبح إِنساناً”
― نيكوس كازانتزاكي, Zorba the Greek

“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“Where is the tuna? Where? Where?”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“En fin, los buenos no siempre se libran, y este juego no es una excepción. Puede que sean los irresponsables quienes terminen ganando. Pero yo respeto a cualquiera que actúa de acuerdo con su conciencia, incluso a riesgo de morir y ser repudiado por todo el mundo.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale