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“When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
“I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”
― Lord of the Flies
― Lord of the Flies
“He must have known I'd want to leave you."
"No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
"No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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