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#1

“Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

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“I'd like to know what a place is like when I'm not there. I'd like to be sure.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

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#3

“I shall remain on Mars and read a book.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

tags: mars, ray-bradbury, reading, solitude, the-illustrated-man

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#4

“There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with God's voice mingling among the crystal fires.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

tags: awe, beauty, colours, god, jewels, kaleidoscope, outer-space, sensory-detail, universe

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#5

“In this world, Daisy, we are tiny. We can’t always win and we can’t always be happy. But the one thing that we can always do is try.”
― Ruth Hogan, The Keeper of Lost Things

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#6

“A hush is a dangerous thing. Silence is solid and dependable, but a hush is expectant, like a pregnant pause; it invites mischief, like a loose thread begging to be pulled.”
― Ruth Hogan, The Keeper of Lost Things

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#7

“She wanted excitement; a life less lifeless.”
― Ruth Hogan, The Keeper of Lost Things

tags: excitement, life

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#8

“I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

tags: dreams, fireflys, nightmare, strenghth

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#9

“He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

tags: laini-taylor, read, reading, strange-the-dreamer

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#10

“Without his books, his room felt like a body with its hearts cut out.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

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#11

“He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

tags: belief, children, ghosts, magic

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#12

“Walls have ears.
Doors have eyes.
Trees have voices.
Beasts tell lies.
Beware the rain.
Beware the snow.
Beware the man
You think you know.
-Songs of Sapphique”
― Catherine Fisher, Incarceron

tags: beware, people-will-hurt-you, rain, snow, walls

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#13

“Because I have dreams and in those dreams I see the stars”
― Catherine Fisher, Incarceron

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#14

“It was as if her life had been brought to a full stop: she couldn't look forward, couldn't picture what tomorrow night bring.”
― Ragnar Jónasson, The Darkness

tags: fore-shortened-future, frozen, immobile, ptsd, stuck, tonic-immobility, traumatized

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#15

“But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air

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#16

“I didn't doubt the potential value of paying attention to subconscious cues...problem was, my inner voice resembled Chicken Little: it was screaming that I was about to die, but it did that almost every time I laced up my climbing boots.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

tags: anxiety, everest, fear, mountains, nature

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#17

“Because it is there”
― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air

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#18

“It was as if there were an unspoken agreement on the mountain to pretend that these desiccated remains weren’t real—as if none of us dared to acknowledge what was at stake here.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air

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#19

“I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea....”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

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#20

“Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things...”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

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#21

“There was something magical about an island—the mere word suggested fantasy. You lost touch with the world—an island was a world of its own. A world, perhaps, from which you might never return. He thought: “I’m leaving my ordinary life behind me.” And, smiling to himself, he began to make plans, fantastic plans for the future. He was still smiling when he walked up the rock-cut steps. In”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

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#22

“Do you know this part of the world well?”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

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#23

“I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: insanity, sanity

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#24

“There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and a half heads taller than Mr. Croup; second, Mr. Croup has eyes of a faded china blue, while Mr. Vandemar's eyes are brown; third, while Mr. Vandemar fashioned the rings he wears on his right hand out of the skulls of four ravens, Mr. Croup has no obvious jewelery; fourth, Mr. Croup likes words, while Mr. Vandemar is always hungry. Also, they look nothing at all alike.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: humor

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#25

“Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: brave, bravery, courage, dare, daring, scared

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#26

“I'm not scared of falling,' he told himself. 'The bit I'm scared of is the bit where you stop falling, and start being dead.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

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#27

“There was still the wreckage of that man in there somewhere. That was what made him so terrible, and so sad.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

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#28

“He stopped for a moment, and he thought about people, and about things, and about how hard it is to do anything for the first time.”
― Neil Gaiman, How the Marquis Got His Coat Back

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#29

“I hope the maps are good where you are.”
― Peng Shepherd, The Cartographers

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#30

“Unbelievable. All these years, and you still can’t let it go. You could have everything you want back, but you’d rather throw it all away just to beat him. To prove you were right.”
― Peng Shepherd, The Cartographers

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