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“The heart, once broken, stayed broken.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

“Maturity...is knowing what your limitations are...Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat’s Cradle

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“A lot of life, Michael had learned, came down to trying to fix things that weren’t fixable.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

“So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage

“Events can seem random while you're living them, but when you look back, what do you see? A chain of coincidences? Plain old luck? Or something more?”
― Justin Cronin

“Sara waited a respectful time, knowing there was nothing she could do to ease the woman's pain. Grief was a place, Sara understood, where a person went alone. It was like a room without doors, and what happened in that room, all the anger and the pain you felt, was meant to stay there, nobody's business but yours.”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage

“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
― Mark Twain

“My Da says you’re never drunk, so long as ye can hold on to the floor.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn

“As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“She remembered no one at all. She remembered one day thinking: I am alone. There is no I but I. She lived in the dark. She taught herself to walk in the light, though it was not easy.”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage

“All stories end when they have returned to their beginnings.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

“Sorry, we made vampires; it seemed like a good idea at the time.”
― Justin Cronin, The Twelve

“What is home but a place where you are truly known?”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

“All Eyes”
― Justin Cronin

“Grief was a place, Sara understood, where a person went alone. It was like a room without doors, and what happened in that room, all the anger and the pain you felt, was meant to stay there, nobody’s business but yours.”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage