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“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“In the wet starlight and on the wet ground.
The lake lay in the mist, its ice half drowned.
A blurry shape stepped off the reedy bank
Into a crackling, gulping swamp, and sank.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

“But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes. People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey