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Lisa Hendry
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One minute you were all alone with your thoughts, the next somebody came along who seemed to know the deepest part of you, who could open you like a book.
“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!”
― Night Watch
― Night Watch
“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America—burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
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