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“I felt like I had made the mistake of asking a fortune-teller to look into my future, and now I was being punished for trying to look too far ahead.”
― How We Fight For Our Lives
― How We Fight For Our Lives
“Tears don't always just fall; sometimes they rip through you, like storm-painted gusts instead of mere raindrops.”
― How We Fight For Our Lives
― How We Fight For Our Lives
“It was if I wanted credit for rescuing my mother from a fire that I had set and couldn’t put out. I wasn’t the man of the house; I was the kid who’d finally lit his first match.”
― How We Fight For Our Lives
― How We Fight For Our Lives
“I made myself a promise: Even if it meant becoming a stranger to my loved ones, even if it meant keeping secrets, I would have a life of my own.”
― How We Fight For Our Lives
― How We Fight For Our Lives
“That's the most intelligent use of three wishes I ever heard of," he told the bird. "You made sure you'd still have something worth wishing for- to get out of the cage.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
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