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“If there is one thing I've learned in more than seven decades of life, it's that the world is a completely fucked-up place. You never know what's around the corner and it's often something unpleasant.”
― John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

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“I guess you could call it a "failure", but I prefer the term "learning experience".”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

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“Unsupervised reading is a blessing for a certain kind of child”
― Victor LaValle, The Changeling

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“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

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