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“So I'm a single man in my thirties, who lives alone in a small apartment, I don't have any kids, but I like kids a lot. I don't like where this is going...
A teacher! I'm a schoolteacher! I remember it now!
Oh, thank God. I'm a teacher.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“That's what the devil is about. I'm what you wanted to become but couldn't. I'm both the closest and the farthest things from who you are.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“Thomas looked at her standing with her delicate arms and legs and thought how odd it was that children were small, and that they found this normal. He could not remember being small. What must he look like to her, standing so far above her, holding that murderous hammer? What did it feel like to know you lived or died at the whim of the giants around you?”
― Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires