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“One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

“I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

“...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

“We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

“I would say inhuman, but your kind perfected the clockwork of murder long ago”
― Amie Kaufman, Gemina

“Insane quasi poetry glorifying a pointless act of intimacy”
― Amie Kaufman, Gemina

“The boy who promised her a whole sky of different stars”
― Amie Kaufman, Gemina

“I cannot help but wonder
If the thought of saving all those lives and hopes and dreams
Pales in comparison
To the thought of seeing him again.

I wonder.”
― Amie Kaufman, Gemina

“What happens,’ writes Shirer, ‘to the inner fabric of a people when they are fed lies like this daily?’ It is a question as important today as it was when posed on 9 May 1940”
― Joshua Levine, Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture

“Here are the widespread views of Churchill as a liability, and of Hitler as the ultra-human genius, the sorcerer divining Britain’s weakness from afar”
― Joshua Levine, Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture

“The tale of retreat and evacuation is not a parochial British story, that bit of history that happened before America and Russia joined in. It is the story of the global preservation of freedom, of the prevention of a new dark age. It deserves to be remembered”
― Joshua Levine

“It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen”
― ken kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“He knows that there's no better way in the world to aggravate somebody who's trying to make it hard for you than by acting like you're not bothered.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“he commences to laugh. Nobody can tell exactly why he laughs; there’s nothing funny going on. But it’s not the way that Public Relation laughs, it’s free and loud and it comes out of his wide grinning mouth and spreads in rings bigger and bigger till it’s lapping against the walls all over the ward. Not like that fat Public Relation laugh. This sounds real. I realize all of a sudden it’s the first laugh I’ve heard in years. He stands looking at us, rocking back in his boots, and he laughs and laughs. He laces his fingers”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“that fool Public Relations man who’s always clapping his wet hands together and saying how overjoyed he is that mental hospitals have eliminated all the old-fashioned cruelty”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“Which one of you claims to be the craziest? Which one is the biggest loony? Who runs these card games”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“he was dealing he was joking and talking and trying to get the players to laugh along with him. But they were all afraid to loosen up; it’d been too long”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“I want to touch him because I'm one of these queers!”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“What do you think?” Harding says. McMurphy starts. “She’s got one hell of a set of chabobs,” is all he can think of. “Big as Old Lady Ratched’s.” “I didn’t mean physically, my friend, I mean what do you—” “Hell’s bells, Harding!” McMurphy yells suddenly. “I don’t know what to think! What do you want out of me? A marriage counsellor? All I know is this: nobody’s very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down. I know what you want me to think; you want me to feel sorry for you, to think she’s a real bitch. Well, you didn’t make her feel like any queen either. Well, screw you and ‘what do you think?’ I’ve got worries of my own without getting hooked with yours. So just quit!” He glares around the library at the other patients. “Alla you! Quit bugging me, goddammit!” And”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“prom·ise (ˈpräməs) n. pl. - es. 1. The lie you want to keep. [2015, Whittier]”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Ocean: The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there.
-Madeline (Madeline's Dictionary)”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Spoiler alert: Love is worth everything. Everything.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“I am made. I am unmade.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Q: Will I encounter turbulence?
A: Yes. Into all lives a little turbulence must fall.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“It’s not your fault. Life is a gift. Don’t forget to live it.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Love makes people crazy. Loss of love makes people crazy.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“his dad seemed to love Olly and Kara and his mom a little less than he did before. And the less he seemed to love them, the more they tried to become more lovable.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“I tell myself there’s no harm in friendship. That Carla is right, and love can’t kill me”
― Nicola Yoon