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“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

tags: future

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#2

“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: future

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#3

“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, future, home, homelessness, leaving, memories, memory, moving-on, past, reminiscence, roots, uncertainty

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#5

“Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: death, destruction, failure

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#6

“I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes

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#7

“The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.”
― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

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#8

“The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

tags: breakfast-of-champions, destruction, earth, kurt-vonnegut, lousy, manufactured, planet, truth, world

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#9

“Outcasts, callused from being in exile for too long, learn to thrive on being the hated; the attention and infamy of our actions fuel us to become antiheroes. Too often do we forget: we risk self-destruction if we fail to follow what we know is right; our talents too often become misplaced, misdirected, misguided from what could have been something wonderful.”
― Mike Norton, Fighting For Redemption

tags: anti-hero, destruction, exile, hate, outcast, talent, wonderful

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#10

“How could you love something so destructive?" I ask.
"Because this wolf doesn't care if your heart is whole or not," you say. "It tastes just the same.”
― Jonathan Messinger, Hiding Out

tags: destruction, heart, love

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#11

“Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.”
― Dan Wells, Fragments

tags: destruction, humanity, lessons

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#12

“We love the things that destroy us, because in that destruction we truly feel alive.”
― Robert Pobi, Bloodman

tags: addiction, destruction, life, love

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#13

“The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.”
― Stanley Kubrick

tags: 2001, destruction, significance, stanley-kubrick, universe

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#15

“It was like we had known all along that the sky was going to fall and then it fell and we pretended to be surprised.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Love Season

tags: catastrophe, surprise

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#16

“Things never go wrong at the moment you expect them to. When you're completely relaxed, oblivious to any potential dangers, that's when bad things happen.”
― C.K. Kelly Martin, I Know It's Over

tags: bad-things, danger, warning

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#17

“And to those who believe that adventures are i say try routine: it kills you far more quickly.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

tags: adventure, inspirational, life, routine

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#18

“It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: routine

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#19

“Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it?”
― Juliet Marillier, Son of the Shadows

tags: excitement

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#20

“There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.”
― August Strindberg, The ghost sonata

tags: blindness, poison, sight, vision

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#21

“We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.”
― Charles de Lint, Tapping the Dream Tree

tags: ideas, love, sight

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#22

“It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)”
― Ron Rash, Serena

tags: darkness, enlightenment, ignorance, philosophy, science, sight

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#23

“We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.”
― Eric Jerome Dickey, Genevieve

tags: fantasy, sight

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#24

“Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

tags: belief, believing, deceiving, magic, seeing, sight, truth

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#25

“At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.”
― William Golding, The Spire

tags: sight, vision

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#26

“Sophie has a gift," she said. "She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life she often wondered if she was mad. Now she knows that she is not mad but special.

There, she was only a parlor maid, who would likely have lost her position once her looks had faded. Now she is a valued member of our household, a gifted girl with much to contribute.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel

tags: looks-fade, maid, perspective, sight, value

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#27

“Allow yourself to see the good in people. Not every sinister face harbors a wicked heart.”
― Nike Thaddeus

tags: heart, kindness, life, love, relationships, sheep, sight, wickedness, wolf

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#28

“Eyes are a deaf man’s ears. Ears are a blind man’s eyes.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: blind, deaf, ear, eyes, hearing, sight

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#29

“If we can forgive what has been done to us . . .

If we can forgive what we've done to others . . .

If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being
villians or victims.

Only then can we maybe rescue the world.

But we still sit here, waiting to be saved. While we're
still victims, hoping to be discovered while we suffer.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

tags: haunted

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#30

“Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us, and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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#31

“We're all of us haunted and haunting.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

tags: haunted, haunting

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#32

“I now know how your anger
came from skeletons
that rattled in your heart
and you couldn't escape them.”
― Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams

tags: anger, escape, haunted, memory, poetry, skeletons, the-past, truth

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