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“Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger—except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.”
― Warren St. John, Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.”
― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

“I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild