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Books were the only thing I was gluttonous about, but I didn’t care about owning them so much as absorbing their contents.
“I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
― A Darker Shade of Magic
― A Darker Shade of Magic
“But these words people threw around - humans, monsters, heroes, villains - to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― Vicious
― Vicious
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
― The Princess Bride
― The Princess Bride
“What I am is very much a function of what I am not. If the "other" is the Muslim world, then I am the Judeo-Christian world. IF the other is from thousands of light-years away, I am simply human. Redefine alterity and you can erase boundaries.”
― Sleeping Giants
― Sleeping Giants
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