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“I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despite being one myself. I think Peeta was on to something about us destroying one another and letting some decent species take over, because there is something significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices our children's lives to settle our differences.”
― Mockingjay
― Mockingjay
“Blackness. Nothingness. It was in the shape of a giant, hazy shadow, enveloping me, swallowing me, and digesting me into the unknown. It was my biggest fear and my ultimate fate.”
― The Shadow Girl
― The Shadow Girl
“But I never did try very hard to please my mother. In fact, I never tried hard to please anybody at all after that day in the locked room. Now I only try hard to please myself. That is all that matters here. That is the secret thing I found.”
― Homesick for Another World
― Homesick for Another World
“I swear, you are frightening me!" said Dantes. "Is the world full of tigers and crocodiles then?"
"Yes, except that the tigers and crocodiles with two legs are more dangerous than the rest.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
"Yes, except that the tigers and crocodiles with two legs are more dangerous than the rest.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“There's a strange contradiction revealed by the naivete and kindness demonstrated by humanity when faced with the universe: On Earth, humankind can step onto another continent, and without a though, destroy the kindred civilizations found there through warfare and disease. But when they gaze up at the stars, they turn sentimental and believe that if extraterrestrial intelligences exist, they must be civilizations bound by universal, noble, moral constraints, as if cherishing and loving different forms of life are parts of a self-evident universal code of conduct.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
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