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#1

“Heaven and hell - nirvana and Valhalla, reincarnation, hauntings, and so many underworlds, one would think the grave was a corridor with a million doors”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

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#2

“So, if you're asking me if it's possible for you to make errors in judgement, the answer is yes. You make errors all the time... as does every other human being who has ever lived. Error is an intrinsic part of the human condition - and it is something I deeply love about humankind.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

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#3

“You can't expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it. That is why leading people to truth is so much more effective than merely telling them.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

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#4

“We're exploring the possibility of building a wall to stem the exodus."
"Don't be ridiculous," Goddard said. "Only idiots build walls.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

tags: borders, walls

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#5

“Death must exist for life to have meaning.”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

tags: death, live, meaning, thunderhead

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#6

“In time, all storms settle to a pleasant breeze.”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

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#7

“How ironic, then, and how poetic, that humankind may have created the Creator out of want for one. Man creates God, who then creates man. Is that not the perfect circle of life? But then, if that turns out to be the case, who is created in whose image?”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

tags: artificial-intelligence, god, humankind

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#8

“Grief is not an excuse for depravity.”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

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#9

“We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

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#10

“People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don’t always like who they are.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

tags: readers

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#11

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#12

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: love

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#13

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: quotes

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#14

“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#15

“I'm not going to die," she said. "Not till I've seen it."
"Seen what?"
Her smile widened. "Everything.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

tags: kell, lila

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#16

“For the ones who dream of stranger worlds.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

tags: dreaming, stranger, worlds

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#17

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, constellations, daedalus, greek-mythology, love, stars

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#18

“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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#19

“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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#20

“The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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#21

“You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: deity, gods, greek-mythology, immortality, mythology, pain

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#22

“You can teach a viper to eat from your hands, but you cannot take away how much it likes to bite.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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#23

“Is it better to speak or die?”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

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#24

“If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

tags: deep-thoughts, humans, love, maggie-stiefvater, nature, the-raven-boys, trees

1458 likes

#25

“My words are unerring tools of
destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

2194 likes

#26

“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

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#27

“When no one understands, that's usually a good sign that you're wrong.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

tags: sign, understand, wrong

1012 likes

#28

“Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

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#29

“That's the choice. I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

tags: romance

1554 likes

#30

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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