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“There is no apology for my acts. We have a choice, all of us, in seeing the world and system we participate in. At some point, we are confronted with the cost. What suffers for happiness. What dies for life. Even Caesar couldn’t keep such a thing hidden, the blood that waters an empire’s soil. You have a choice. You can choose to close your eyes and enjoy your lucky position on the good earth. You can choose to walk away.
Or you can choose to rebel.
Librarian Poppaea Julia, 48 BCE”
― A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten

“That's what I sell them. Closure. Like on television. They want to know that it's all going to work out in the end, and they're happy to pay for it.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

“You can convince yourself that you are nothing like me. Tell yourself that you are the black to my white, the queen that stood on the right side of the board. But one day, you will be faced with a choice, as we all are. One day you will have to choose between your own desires, your own darkest impulses, and what you know to be right...and it will harden you. You will understand that all of us are devils in the skins of men. You will become the monster that lives inside us all.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Song Rising

“Whatever the case, we want to change things around us. Because we want to matter, and we believe that our work makes us matter. The work isn't the end, it's the means for what we really want: to matter.”
― Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors