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“Make friends with fear, Lucien always said, because it will not go away, and it will destroy you if left uncontrolled.”
― John Grisham, A Time to Kill

“It’s better to be a selfless somebody than to be a selfish nobody.”
― Colleen Hoover, Layla

“I keep running back to the starting line because I don’t want to be finished with you.”
― Colleen Hoover, Layla

“Layla is my soul mate in every realm of life.”
― Colleen Hoover, Layla

“The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. —Elbert Hubbard”
― Colleen Hoover, Layla

“It was like someone let all the air back into my life when I had no idea I was even suffocating.”
― Colleen Hoover, Layla

“I wonder what happened in my childhood that makes me take on so much guilt; even when I'm not responsible for whatever is wrong.”
― Colleen Hoover, Layla

“If you're destined to be poor, it's better to be the happy kind of poor.”
― Colleen Hoover, Layla

“There's something annoying about every single human on this planet.”
― Colleen Hoover, Layla

“It became one of the things that irritated me about her because no matter how beautiful she was, her insecurity was the loudest thing about her.”
― Colleen Hoover, Layla

“As it was, being a bad mother was child’s play compared to being a good mother, which was an incessant struggle, a lose-lose situation 24 hours a day; long after the kids were in bed the torment of what I did or didn’t do during those hours we were trapped together would scourge my soul.”
― Mary Kubica, The Good Girl

“I know how betrayal and disillusionment feel, when someone who could give you the world refuses even a tiny piece of it.”
― Mary Kubica, The Good Girl

“I don't tell her the way she makes me feel when she looks at me, or how I hear her voice at night, in my dreams, forgiving me. I don't tell her I'm sorry, though I am. I don't tell her that I think she's beautiful, even when I see her look in a mirror and hate the image she sees.”
― Mary Kubica, The Good Girl

“The human being is the cause of all evil in this world. We are our own virus.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“After all, since the world began, we’ve been eating each other. If not symbolically, then we’ve been literally gorging on each other. The Transition has enabled us to be less hypocritical.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“She had the human look of a domesticated animal.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“No one can call them humans because that would mean giving them an identity. They call them product, or meat, or food. Except for him; he would prefer not to have to call them by any name.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“Everyone says that he fell because he flew too close to the sun,” his father said, “but he flew, do you see what I mean, Son? He was able to fly. It doesn’t matter if you fall, if you were a bird for even just a few seconds.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“Don’t be an idiot. Can’t you see they’re controlling us? If we eat each other, they control overpopulation, poverty, crime. Do you want me to keep going? I mean, it’s obvious.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“since the world began, we’ve been eating each other. If not symbolically, then we’ve been literally gorging on each other. The Transition has enabled us to be less hypocritical.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“This is what his sister’s going to get: an urn full of dirty sand from an abandoned zoo with no name.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“A brave man helps. A coward just gives presents.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“You never know where the trapdoors are in your life, do you?”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“There’s a dark well in everyone, I think, and it never goes dry. But you drink from it at your peril. That water is poison.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“Time is the water, Charlie. Life is just the bridge it flows under.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“good people shine brighter in dark times.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“There is pain in every almost.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“My old resentments were mostly gone, but not entirely. Fright and loss leave a residue.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“All alcohol smells the same to me, of sadness and loss.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“a quote from Benjamin Franklin: Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale