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“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Sometimes he seemed to grow a little older just by looking at me and remembering.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven

“One does not always need to hear a slam to know that the door has been closed.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Homesickness is a real sickness—the ache of the uprooted plant.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Mothers are all slightly insane.”
― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I hate ordinary people!”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“My dream was someday ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful.”
― Anonymous

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

“What it comes down to for me is that I’d rather us make bad decisions as a group, than to live in the absence of freedom.”
― Blake Crouch, The Last Town

“I know it’s crazy, but I’m holding tight to the idea that a small act of kindness can have real resonance.”
― Blake Crouch, The Last Town

“Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true.”
― Ben Monopoli, The Painting of Porcupine City

“That's the secret. If you always make sure you're exactly the person you hoped to be, if you always make sure you know only the very best people, then you won't care if you die tomorrow.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home