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“The greatest pain is the love you leave behind.”
― Jason Latshaw, The Threat Below

“Adam offered her a heart-melting smile and a wink, then headed for the door. With his hand on the door, he paused and turned back.
Heidi’s eyes jumped up from his butt to his face.”
― Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street

“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving. You have lost no reputation at all unless you repute yourself such a loser.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Without any appeal to books, to laws, or to authorities of any kind, it was enough to accept God as a father, to regard slavery as a crime. I”
― Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom

“No hay inocentes; sólo distintos grados de responsabilidad.

Lisbeth Salander”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“There’s nothing noble about dying. Not even if you die for honor. Not even if you die the greatest hero the world ever saw. Not even if you’re so great your name will never be forgotten and who’s that great? The most important thing is your life little guys. You’re worth nothing dead except for speeches.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Avoid exaggerations.”
― Edwin A. Abbott, How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition

“All knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery.”
― Isaac Asimov, Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos

“Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.”
― Tom Robbins

“My goodness', thought Milo. 'Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.”
― Dean Koontz

“A bondade vem de dentro. A bondade é algo que se escolhe. Quando um homem perde a capacidade de escolha, deixa de ser homem.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“Satan was crouched in the corner of his office, playing a gameboy, 'Die alien scum' he was saying feverishly..”
― Eoin Colfer, The Wish List

“Vielleicht haben Bücher einen geheimen Instinkt, der sie den idealen Lesern zuführt. Wie wunderbar, wenn es so wäre.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane