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“I wonder- if nobody is listening to my voice, am I making any sound at all?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“Life can be very terrible," he said. "One needs much courage."
"To kill oneself? yes, I suppose one does."
"Also to live," said Poirot, "one needs courage.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“Mon ami,' said Poirot with dignity, 'when I commit a murder it will not be with the arrow poison of the South American Indians.”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“Science is the greatest romance there is”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot”
― Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. ”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Sanity is not statistical.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“I want my chirfugging goose back!”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

“Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches...”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

“Well, you will have to do. If you had died along with your mother, I would have taught the cat to read.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

“He was bellowing a great many words that were new to Mosca and sounded quite interesting. She memorized them for future use.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

“The world is full of liars of different humours.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

“True stories seldom have endings.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

“What a world this is, he thought. Children put us to shame with their pluck, and are shot in the back for it.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

“Fear made everyone look very alive in a strange and fragile way, like the last flare of a candle before it dies.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

“Little god, you see the world through such black eyes."

"Got no choice. My father give ’em to me.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

“It is a very terrible thing to be far smaller than one's rage.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

“The world is full of liars of different humors. Coy liars drop their eyes. Bold liars forget to blink.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

“government is to protect the rights of the low from the tyranny of the high and not the property of the high from the desperation of the low.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly By Night

“People adapted. If the word turned upside down, everyone ran and hid in their houses, but a very short while later, if all seemed quiet, they came out again and started selling each other potatoes.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

“Since that time Saracen had been making a name for himself. That name was not ‘Saracen’. Indeed the name was more along the lines of ‘that hell-fowl’, ‘did-you-see-what-it-did-to-my-leg’, ‘kill-it-kill-it-there-it-goes’ or ‘what’s-that-chirfugging-goose-done-now’.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly Trap

“That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca’s experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly Trap