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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“It’s the reward of old age,” Avasarala said. “You live long enough, and you can watch everything you worked for become irrelevant.” “You’re not selling it,” Drummer said. “Fuck you, then. Die young. See if I care.”
― James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising

“Did you like question ten, Moony?" asked Sirius as they emerged into the entrance hall.
"Loved it," said Lupin briskly. "Give five signs that identify the werewolf. Excellent question."
"D'you think you managed to get all the signs?" said James in tones of mock concern.
"Think I did," said Lupin seriously, as they joined the crowd thronging around the front doors eager to get out into the sunlit grounds. "One: He's sitting on my chair. Two: He's wearing my clothes. Three: His name's Remus Lupin...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“I am a human being. Anything that happens to human beings could happen to me. One time and another in the years since, she’d taken comfort from that. Or warning. People fall in love, so maybe I will too. People get jobs, so maybe I will too. And people get sick. People have accidents. And now, she supposed, people are divided from their families by war and history. And so that could happen to me too.”
― James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising

“It was always dangerous when the universe fell down in a pattern where the thing you wanted and the wise path were the same.”
― James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising

“we have been conquered, but we will fight to the last breath because living with someone else’s hand on our necks is intolerable, has always been intolerable, will always be intolerable. Not because of Laconia, not because of the union, not because of any of the authorities through all of history that have made rules and then dared people to break them. Because we’re human, and humans are mean, independent monkeys that reached their greatness by killing every other species of hominid that looked at us funny. We will not be controlled for long. Not even by ourselves. Any other plan is a pipe dream.”
― James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising

“Through all of youth I was looking for you
without knowing what I was looking for”
― W.S. Merwin

“In his opinion, faith was generally for people who were bad at math.”
― James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising

“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Eppur si muove.”
― Galileo Galilei

“Remember, the enemy's gate is down.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“The weak are meat the strong do eat.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Time was supposed to heal all wounds. To Drummer, that was just a nice way of saying that if she waited long enough, none of the things that seemed important to her would turn out to matter. Or at least not the way she’d thought they did.”
― James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising

“For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“I could live alone forever if I just had a view of the sea.”
― Norah Vincent, Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin

“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

-Mr. Darcy”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I am light! I am truth! I am might! I am truth!”
― Evan Roskos, Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets

“I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

“I'd rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

“Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History

“The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Finished in a frenzy that reminded me of our last night in Cambridge. Watched my final sunrise. Enjoyed a last cigarette. Didn’t think the view could be any more perfect until I saw that beat-up trilby. Honestly, Sixsmith, as ridiculous as that thing makes you look, I don’t believe I’ve ever seen anything more beautiful. Watched you for as long as I dared. I don’t believe it was a fluke that I saw you first. I believe there is another world waiting for us, Sixsmith. A better world, and I’ll be waiting for you there. I believe we do not stay dead long. Find me beneath the Corsican stars, where we first kissed.

Yours eternally, R.F.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees