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“Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“It was a pleasure to burn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Things aren't different. Things are things.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after. ”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“There was no Lo to behold.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“No man can bring about the perfect murder; chance, however, can do it.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Years of secret suffering had taught me superhuman self-control.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“the gin kept my heart alive but bemazed my brain”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Never rude, always aloof.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“It occurred to me that I had a fine brain in beautiful working order and that I might as well use it.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita