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Rick Riordan
“I am a monster."
"Don't say that."
"It is okay. I will be good monster. Then you will not have to be mad.”
Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

Joanne Harris
“I don't believe God really cares what you eat, or what you wear, or whom you love. I think that if God made the stars, He must have a greater perspective.”
Joanne Harris, Different Class

Rebecca Solnit
“...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.”
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Chuck Palahniuk
“At the store, they have one-hundred-percent-recycled toilet paper," Marla says. "The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

George Orwell
“It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of the was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.”
George Orwell, 1984

Lauren Oliver
“This was progress. This was modernity: you could cover over the past completely. You could bury the old under a relentless surface of new, stretched from corner to corner.”
Lauren Oliver, Rooms

“But artists love what is forbidden to them, a fact I learned too
young; too early.”
Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

Dorothy B. Hughes
“If it had been possible, he would have gone alone, silently as shadow. But when he glanced across the room, Ellen’s questioning eyes were on him, waiting for his signal.”
Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“I give my word of honor: I had not the slightest inkling of what the trouble might be.”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Deadeye Dick