There must be consequences to our deeds. But I can’t see it. And I have to know. Whatever the cost.”
“The thing about smart mother fuckers is that sometimes, they sound like crazy mother fuckers to stupid mother fuckers...”
― The Walking Dead, Vol. 9: Here We Remain
― The Walking Dead, Vol. 9: Here We Remain
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
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“I’m beginning to view democracy as the Siri of political systems. So much better in theory.”
― Mr. Kiss and Tell
― Mr. Kiss and Tell
“There's none so blind as those who will not listen.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
― The Magicians
― The Magicians
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