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“Of course these minimum life requirements don't fully address what it means to be alive. For even beyond all the metabolic processes, there was also an intangible essence separating the living from the not. Call it a soul, or just a need we had. Every living thing possessed a certain energy or life-force that infused even the unicellular among us.”
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“Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.”
― A Storm of Swords
― A Storm of Swords
“Living had got to be such a habit with him that he couldn’t conceive of any other condition.”
― A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
― A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
“Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.”
― Insurgent
― Insurgent
“The empty swing set reminds us of this--
that bad won't be bad forever,
and what is good can sometimes last
a long, long time.”
― Brown Girl Dreaming
that bad won't be bad forever,
and what is good can sometimes last
a long, long time.”
― Brown Girl Dreaming
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