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Maria was supposed to be back at work fifteen minutes ago, but whatever. She can do whatever the fuck she wants, apparently, and nothing truly bad will ever happen.
“The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.”
― Uglies
― Uglies
“The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.”
― Ghostwritten
― Ghostwritten
“When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.”
― Arcadia
― Arcadia
“The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.”
― Witches Abroad
― Witches Abroad
“Alexa and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness. They would not understand why people like him who were raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction, conditioned from birth to look towards somewhere else, eternally convinced that real lives happened in that somewhere else, were now resolved to do dangerous things, illegal things, so as to leave, none of them starving, or raped, or from burned villages, but merely hungry for for choice and certainty.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
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