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“I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”
― Shatter Me
― Shatter Me
“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”
― Lord of the Flies
― Lord of the Flies
“Life is just seeds, he says shrugging. You know, you plant in the dirt you're given. It's all you've got. You water, you tend, and sometimes seeds don't take. Sometimes it all goes away from you.”
― Amity & Sorrow
― Amity & Sorrow
“The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”
― Lord of the Flies
― Lord of the Flies
“Nothing can be more slightly defined than the line of demarcation between sanity and insanity ... Make the definition too narrow, it becomes meaningless; make it too wide, and the whole human race becomes involved in the dragnet. In strictness we are all mad when we give way to passion, to prejudice, to vice, to vanity; but if all the passionate, prejudiced and vain people were to be locked up as lunatics, who is to keep the key to the asylum?"
(Editorial, The Times, 22 July 1853)”
― The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
(Editorial, The Times, 22 July 1853)”
― The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
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