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“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I wonder what exactly happened in that additional chapter between us.”
― Kathryn Barker, Waking Romeo

“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”
― Eric Weiner, The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers

“I, too, stood on the sacred image. For a moment this foot was on his face. It was on the face of the man who has been ever in my thoughts, on the face that was before me on the mountains, in my wanderings, in prison, on the best and most beautiful face that any man can ever know, on the face of him whom I have always longed to love. Even now that face is looking at me with eyes of pity from the plaque rubbed flat by many feet. « Trample ! » said those compassionate eyes. « Trample ! Your foot suffers in pain ; it must suffer like all the feet that have stepped on this plaque. But that pain alone is enough. I understand your pain and your suffering. It is for that reason that I am here. »
« Lord, I resented your silence. »
« I was not silent. I suffered beside you. »”
― Shūsaku Endō, Silence