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“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“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
“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
“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
“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”
― Lord of the Flies
― Lord of the Flies
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