“There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.”
― The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
― The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
“Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.”
― Immortality
― Immortality
“Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”
― The Graveyard Book
― The Graveyard Book
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