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#1

“Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

tags: nonfiction, pretty

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#2

“Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

tags: fate, lie, lying, power, truth

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#3

“If you have to ask then you don't deserve an answer.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

tags: answer, ask, deserve

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#4

“We're this big melting pot, but someone turned up the heat too high, and the stew started to burn. Gangs, crime, fights, and fear are now a regular part of our local stew.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

tags: gangs, melting-pots, race, violence

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#5

“Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain't natural.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

tags: consume, earth, unnatural, werewolf

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#6

“I went home and tried to sleep, but couldn't, so I stared up at the moon, watching how it's trailing edge faded into darkness, so close to being full, but not quite there. A pregnant moon, Grandma called it. Full almost to bursting, and ready to give birth to something unthinkable.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

tags: moon, werewolf, werewolves

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#7

“You know," he said, his voice making me feel cold in spite of the heat, "this city can get ahold of you and pull you back no matter how hard you try to climb out. Like a grave.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

tags: city, grave

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#8

“Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I'll pretend there's nothing wrong if you pretend there's nothing wrong. It's called denial, and it's one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just ask all those people who were still drinking champagne while the Titanic went down.”
― Neal Shusterman, Dread Locks

tags: denial, pact, self, titanic

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#9

“I believe that we have free will. I believe we get the chance to make choices in our lives. Not everything is set in stone from the moment we're born. We choose our destiny, our ultimate fate. But I also think that we don't realize the choices we've made until after we make them. We're racing down a freeway, only to realize we've missed all the exits, and the only direction we can go is dead ahead.”
― Neal Shusterman, Dread Locks

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#10

“Lethargy. It's a word I know, because it's in one of my father's favorite expressions. Lethargy breeds lethargy. It means the more you lie around doing nothing, the more you want to lie around doing nothing. Your limbs and your mind feel so heavy that it becomes a major effort just to lift your arm to channel surf.”
― Neal Shusterman, Dread Locks

tags: lethargy, nothing, truth, vocabulary

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#11

“Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.”
― Neal Shusterman, Dread Locks

tags: dream, dreams, emotion, reality

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#12

“If love of money is the root of all evil, then having money is the root of all boredom. When you can have everything, you find there's nothing you really want. When you can do anything, you find there's nothing you really care to do. You become lazy. Life feels like a boulder you don't want to lift.”
― Neal Shusterman, Dread Locks

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#13

“There was never anything wrong with my life. Perhaps that was the problem... The crack in my life was the fact that I had everything I wanted, or could ever want—and when you have it all, boredom grows like a fungus, coating everything you own and everything you feel.”
― Neal Shusterman, Dread Locks

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#14

“Suddenly, Tara's accomplishment was clear. She had lined up allies among the school's various groups and got them all to work together for probably the first time in the school's history. She was like a master builder who could bend materials like stone and steel and clay to her will... except her materials were flesh and spirit.”
― Neal Shusterman, Dread Locks

tags: flesh, manipulation, school, spirit

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#15

“We could live offa the fatta the lan'.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

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#16

“There is no greater bore than perfection.”
― Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

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#17

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

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#18

“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
― Vaclav Havel

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#19

“Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.”
― Vaclav Havel

tags: life

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#20

“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
― Vaclav Havel

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#21

“The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.”
― Vaclav Havel

tags: czech-president, playwright

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#22

“I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.”
― Vaclav Havel

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#23

“Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. ”
― Vaclav Havel

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#24

“As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.”
― Vaclav Havel, Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala

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#25

“You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.”
― Václav Havel

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#26

“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.”
― Václav Havel

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#27

“The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world.

Either we have hope within us, or we don’t. It is a dimension of the soul
It’s not essentially dependent upon some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
― Vaclav Havel

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#28

“Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.”
― Vaclav Havel

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#29

“Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.”
― Vaclav Havel

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#30

“Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.”
― Václav Havel

tags: ethics, ethics-and-moral-philosophy, morality, politics

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