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#1

“Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: monsters, scared

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#2

“I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: death, markus-zusak, the-book-thief

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#3

“In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.”
― Marya Hornbacher

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#4

“The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
― George Bernard Shaw, The Quintessence of Ibsenism

tags: believe, liar, lie, punishment

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#5

“We have not touched the stars,
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

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#6

“Imagine that the world is made out of love. Now imagine that it isn’t. Imagine a story where everything goes wrong, where everyone has their back against the wall, where everyone is in pain and acting selfishly because if they don’t, they’ll die. Imagine a story, not of good against evil, but of need against need against need, where everyone is at cross-purposes and everyone is to blame.”
― Richard Siken

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#7

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul

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#8

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
― Primo Levi

tags: common-men, danger, existence, holocaust, monsters, questions

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#9

“We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
― Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

tags: evil, monster

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#10

“When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

tags: katsa, monster

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#11

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: scars, souls, suffering

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#12

“Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

tags: crooked-kingdom, grisha, inej-ghafa, six-of-crows

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#13

“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

tags: fear, hate, hatred

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#14

“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."
"And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: character, defects, dislike, education, hatred, misunderstanding, propensity, repartee, retort, wit

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#15

“Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: antipathy, hatred

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#16

“Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

tags: law, rules, war

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#17

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire

tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war

4084 likes

#18

“In times of war, the law falls silent.

Silent enim leges inter arma”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: freedom, human-rights, law, war

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#19

“People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

tags: carrie, changing, king, learning, stephen

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#20

“Welcome, Prince,' said Aslan. 'Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?'

I - I don't think I do, Sir,' said Caspian. 'I am only a kid.'

Good,' said Aslan. 'If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been proof that you were not.”
― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

tags: king

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#21

“The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

tags: king, stephen

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#22

“You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you. Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and Kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.

Till your spirit filleth the whole world, and the stars are your jewels; till you are as familiar with the ways of God in all Ages as with your walk and table: till you are intimately acquainted with that shady nothing out of which the world was made: till you love men so as to desire their happiness, with a thirst equal to the zeal of your own: till you delight in God for being good to all: you never
enjoy the world.”
― Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditations

tags: god, good, heaven, jewel, king, love, sea, spirit, stars, world

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#23

“He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.”
― Stephen King, The Running Man

tags: king, man, manhood, pride, responsibility, running, stephen

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#24

“- If I tell you, will you let met go?
- You bet, partner. [...]
- You promised!
- Nope. I said "you bet." You did ... and you lost.”
― Scott Snyder, American Vampire, Vol. 1

tags: american, king, scott, skinner, snyder, stephen, sweet, vampire

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#25

“For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.”
― Stephen King, It

tags: clown, eddie, it, king, nightmare, pennywise, reality, stephen

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#26

“Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Flanders Panel

tags: chess, father, killing, king, murder

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#27

“Mr. Grace sounded like a very small child, helpless, hopeless. I had made him fuck himself with his own big tool, like one of those weird experiences you read about in the Penthouse Forum. I had taken off his witch doctor's mask and made him human. But I didn't hold it against him. To err is only human, but it's divine to forgive. I believe that sincerely.”
― Richard Bachman, Rage

tags: bachman, charlie, decker, grace, king, psychology, rage, richard, stephen

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#28

“those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

tags: anavarapta, anavataptanagarajapariprchchha, king, nagas, questions, sutra

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#29

“Look to your kingdoms—
I am coming for them all.”
― Elisabeth Hewer, Wishing for Birds

tags: love-letters-from-helen-of-troy, poetry

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#30

“I am sore wounded but not slain
I will lay me down and bleed a while
And then rise up to fight again”
― John Dryden

tags: perseverance, poetry

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