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“It was a lazy community of mutual disinterest and alcohol.”
― Ginn Hale, Wicked Gentlemen

“I don't know," I said. "Whether or not he can write his own name seems to have very little impact on his ability to be an ass.”
― Danielle Bennett, Havemercy

“I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“There're too many people in the world like you," Yoshio said. "Too many people who don't have anyone they care about. Who think if they don't love anyone else then they're free to do whatever they want. They think they have nothing to lose, and that makes them stronger. If you have nothing to lose, there's nothing you really want, either. You're full of confidence, and look down on people who lose things, who want things, who are happy, or sad sometimes. But that's not the way things are. And it's just not right.”
― Shūichi Yoshida, Villain