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“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“(Looking at the letter in his hand) Then what is this if it isn’t telling me? Sure, [Larry] was my son. But I think to him [the pilots killed] were all my sons. And I guess they were, I guess they were”
― All My Sons
― All My Sons
“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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