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“The usual warmth of his hands wasn’t there. They chilled my skin as they slipped to my waist, and I realized he was scared.”
― M. R. Noble, Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes

“Our world is not safe. It is a toxic swamp populated by predators and parasites. The odds are stacked against us from the moment of conception. We survive only because we fight the elements, hunger, disease, each other. And, although civilization promises us safe harbor, that promise is a fairy tale. Only the storm is real. It comes for each of us. And we cannot win. We can only choose how we will suffer our defeat.

We can meekly take our beatings, and die like lemmings, finding solace in the belief that we shall one day inherit the earth.

Or, we can plunge into the chaos with eyes wide open, taking comfort instead from the bruises, scars, and broken bones which prove that we fought to live and die as gods.”
― J.K. Franko, Life for Life

“Happiness from long ago that hasn’t carried into today turns into a sadness that’s too much to bear.”
― J.S. Latshaw, A Gallery of Mothers

“Broken or whole... you're all mine. You... are all mine! ~Sade~”
― Lucian Bane, No Mercy

“Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax..”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“You think you are alive
because you breathe air?
Shame on you,
that you are alive in such a limited way.
Don't be without Love,
so you won't feel dead.
Die in Love
and stay alive forever.”
― Rumi

“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”
― T.S. Eliot

“If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“Lo que no está en mi corazón, no lo escribirá mi pluma.”
― Wilkie Collins, No Name

“I wish," said Dr Perholt to the djinn, "I wish you would love me."

"You honor me," said the djinn, "and maybe you have wasted your wish, for it may well be that love would have happened anyway, since we are together, and sharing our life stories, as lovers do.”
― A.S. Byatt, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories

“If we put God front and center in our lives, if we give him more attention throughout each and every day, we may just find that the challenging times, when they come, are a little less challenging.”
― Todd Burpo, Heaven Changes Everything: The Rest of Our Story

“If I was the only one I wouldn't be littler or bigger, would I? I'd be just me, wouldn't I?”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna

“I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange — ”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“THE ADMIRALTY’S focus was elsewhere, on a different ship that it deemed far more valuable.”
― Erik Larson, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania