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“When God created fools he put the biggest of them into uniform and gave them helmets to prevent any thoughts entering their heads.”
― M. R. C. Kasasian

“It is the living who frighten me,’ I said. ‘There is nothing to fear from the dead.”
― M. R. C. Kasasian

“He is either a pompous ass or helplessly in love with you,’ she told me, ‘and, from the way you did not colour when you mentioned him, I should say the former. Oh, how disappointing. I had hoped he would have made you his mistress by now. How I could have entertained my tea-circle with that story. But do not worry, I shall anyway.”
― M. R. C. Kasasian

“I mean, I know people have always bin afraid of me. Kids specially, but old people too. Wary. They reckon I’m just half an animal with half a vote. That I’m no good. And I always used to think, why? They don’t even know me. Nobody does. It never made sense. But then I realized, that’s exactly why. That’s all it is. It’s so stupid, Charlie. But it means I don’t hate them anymore.”
― Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones