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“You’re not afraid of dying, Henry. You’re just opposed to killing. That isn’t cowardice.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

“Why am I a human being, with all the torments this extremely vague and horribly responsible condition entails? Why am I not, for example, the happy wardrobe in your room, which has you in full view whenever you're sitting in your chair or at your desk or when you're lying down or sleeping (all blessings upon your sleep!)? Why am I not that? Because I would break down with grief if I had seen your misery during these last days, or even if - you should leave Vienna.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“Put that down,” Jacks warned. “You don’t want to do this. You don’t want to be the hero, you want the happy ending— that’s why you came to me. If you do this, that will never happen. Heroes don’t get happy endings. They give them to other people. Is that what you really want?”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“There is nothing to be done but to go ahead with life moment by moment...try to create order and peace around me even if I cannot achieve it inside of me.”
― Katherine Mansfield, Letters and Journals