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“This is the thing about good and evil. They aren't so far apart - and they often start from the same valiant place of wanting something to be different.”
― The Last Thing He Told Me
― The Last Thing He Told Me
“No stories were viral. No celebrity was trending. The world was still big. The country was still vast. You could just be a little person, with your own little life and your own little thoughts. You didn’t have to have an opinion, and nobody cared if you did or did not. You could be alone on purpose, even in a crowd.”
― The Nineties
― The Nineties
“There’s a dark well in everyone, I think, and it never goes dry. But you drink from it at your peril. That water is poison.”
― Fairy Tale
― Fairy Tale
“There are pitfalls like that everywhere, lying in wait to trip you up. The more feeling you put into your work or whatever it is you're devoting yourself to, the more of them there are.”
― There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
― There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
“Want,’ she told her, in a measured tone, ‘is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
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