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“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse, the reason being, you were alive to suffer it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“Flames are not just the end, they are also the beginning. For everything that you have destroyed can be rebuilt. From your own ashes you can grow again.”
― Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

“dunno. I think it’s what all alkies want anyways.” She shivered. “To die, I mean. Some are just taking the slow road to it.”
― Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

“It was clear now: nobody would get to be made brand new.”
― Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

“He had long perfected the art of staring through people, leaving conversations to follow his daydreams through the back of their heads and out any open window.”
― Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

“George said. “I am on fire. I do not burn. It’s Saint Agnes’s lament.”
― Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

“As I reached out for help, everyone shrank back from me; they pulled away from fear that the fire would return”
― Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

“am in flames, yet I do not burn.” He wiped the spit from the corners of his mouth. “That’s what Saint Agnes had to teach us. How even in the darkness there is still hope.”
― Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre