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“My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”
― The Princess Bride
― The Princess Bride
“I only fear danger where I want to fear it.”
― The Metamorphosis
― The Metamorphosis
“There were days when she was very happy without knowing why. She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day. She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in. And she found it good to dream and to be alone and unmolested.
There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why—when it did not seem worth while to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.”
― The Awakening
There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why—when it did not seem worth while to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.”
― The Awakening
“I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.”
― Wonder
― Wonder
“It is not the pain that is pleasing to God, child. It is the soul's endurance in faith and hope and love in spite of bodily afflictions that pleases Heaven.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
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