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#1

“We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage

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#2

“Sometimes the hardest thing is admitting you were wrong. It’s hard to say you need to be forgiven.”
― Jane Casey

tags: admitting-faults, crime, forgiveness, thriller, wrong

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#3

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

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#4

“Love that can’t trump intellectual integrity isn’t worth the name.”
― Ellen Datlow, Lovecraft Unbound

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#5

“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.”
― Jerry Seinfeld

tags: bookstore-thinking-evidence

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#6

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: dune

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#7

“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: muad-dib, order, princess-irulan, reality, understanding

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#8

“One batch, two batch, penny and dime.”
― Frank Castle (The Punisher)

tags: daredevil

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#9

“Hey man let me ask you something. Do you sort of feel like you are carrying a low level anxiety about the existence of shark attacks? I mean, just the fact that it really happens, it's horrible, it's horrible enough that you kind of have to worry about it, at least a little bit, almost all the time...”
― Kevin Hooyman, Conditions on the Ground

tags: anxiety

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#10

“We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: pp-18

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#11

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom

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#12

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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#13

“I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved.”
― Rebecca Makkai

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#14

“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
― Hervé Le Tellier

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#15

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books

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#16

“Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: religion

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#17

“I apologize for anything I might have done. I was not myself.”
“I apologize for shooting you in the leg.” said Lila. “I was myself entirely.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

tags: lila-bard, rhy

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#18

“There’s an old joke about Alzheimer’s: the good news is that you meet new people every day.”
― Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

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#19

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

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#20

“I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

tags: harry-dresden, humor, michael-carpenter

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#21

“We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

tags: bob-the-skull, harry-dresden, humor, insanity

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#22

“The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.”
― Harlan Ellison, Stalking the Nightmare

tags: writing

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#23

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: identity, self-image, sense-of-self, stories, storytelling

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#24

“Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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#25

“Rabbits need dignity and, above all, the will to accept their fate.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

tags: cunning, rabbits

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#26

“End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: death, end, journey, life, path

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#27

“I followed the spiked iron fence around the church, 'First Church in Salem, Founded in 1629', the sign reads. The fence ends, and there's a big wooden trellis covered in vines.”
― Adriana Mather, How to Hang a Witch

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#28

“People believe a lot of weird stuff in Salem.”
― Adriana Mather, How to Hang a Witch

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#29

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: seuss

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#30

“Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!”
― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

tags: brain, humor, insanity, life, sanity

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