“every choice forecloses on other choices; each step forward leaves a thousand dead possible universes behind you.”
― Countdown City
― Countdown City
“I concluded to myself that if I were the hunter, I would shoot the monkey so that it would no longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same predicament.”
― A Long Way Gone
― A Long Way Gone
“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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