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“How ironic! We are born faithful and afraid, when it should be the opposite; it is life that teaches us how much we stand to lose.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

“Give people hope, and you could make them do just about anything. And not just your average, everyday kind of hope—for food or clothes or the absence of pain or good suburban schools or low down payments with easy financing. What people needed was a hope beyond the visible world, the world of the body and its trials, of life’s endless dull parade of things.”
― Justin Cronin, The Twelve

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it’s too late.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“All his many nights at sea, the stars had been his most loyal companions. He preferred them to the moon, which seemed to him too frank, always begging to be noticed; the stars maintained a certain cagey distance, permitting the mystery of their hidden selves to breathe.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors