“Bitterness can be corrosive. It can rewrite your memories as if it were scrubbing a crime scene clean, until in the end you only remember what suits you of its causes.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder?”
― War of the Foxes
― War of the Foxes
“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.”
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“One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but what they are told they are.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
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