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“We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“As with most of life's problems, this one can be solved by a box of pure radiation.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“I guess you could call it a "failure", but I prefer the term "learning experience".”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“What do you want to be when you grow up?"

"Kind," said the boy.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“Is your glass half empty or half full?" asked the mole.

"I think I'm grateful to have a glass," said the boy.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“Doing nothing with friends is never doing nothing, is it?' asked the boy.

'No,' said the mole.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“But books were different. They had lots of blanks. Blanks between words and even between lines. I could squeeze myself in there and sit, or walk, or scribble down my thoughts. It didn’t matter if I had no idea what the words meant. Turning the pages was half the battle.”
― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond

“There is no such person who can’t be saved. There are only people who give up on trying to save others. It’s”
― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond

“Please be thinking about me. I'm quite lonely and I want to be thought about”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

“It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

“The feeling often comes over me that I am not at all remarkable; it is fun to plan a career, but in all probability I shan't turn out a bit different from any other ordinary person.”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. "Fear," he used to say, "fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe." That blew me away. "Turn on the TV," he'd say. "What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products." Fuckin' A, was he right. Fear of aging, fear of loneliness, fear of poverty, fear of failure. Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“The awful thing about a vacation is that the moment it begins your happiness is already clouded by its approaching end.”
― Jean Webster, Dear Enemy

“Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Because humans are complicated beasts, the monster said. How can a queen be both a good witch and a bad witch? How can a prince be a murderer and a saviour? How can an apothecary be evil-tempered but right-thinking? How can a parson be wrong-thinking but good-hearted? How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen?”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“But there are harder things than being invisible, it said.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

“Remember that hope is a good thing, Red, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
― Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption

“He has wondered lately if that's all living really is—one long goodbye to those we love.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. —SØREN KIERKEGAARD”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“We all made the right kind of mistakes, or we wouldn't be here.
-Guy Montag”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“You can’t kill humanity to save humanity. Human beings are not a means to an end.”
― Blake Crouch, Upgrade