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“Feelings are relative. And at the root, they’re all the same, even if they grow from different experiences and exist on different scales.”
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
“Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn’t.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“All you can do, Rosemary – all any of us can do – is work to be something positive instead. That is a choice that every sapient must make every day of their life. The universe is what we make of it. It’s up to you to decide what part you will play.”
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
“The truth is, Rosemary, that you are capable of anything. Good or bad. You always have been, and you always will be. Given the right push, you, too, could do horrible things. That darkness exists within all of us. You think every soldier who picked up a cutter gun was a bad person? No. She was just doing what the soldier next to her was doing, who was doing what the soldier next to her was doing, and so on and so on. And I bet most of them — not all, but most — who made it through the war spent a long time after trying to understand what they’d done. Wondering how they ever could have done it in the first place. Wondering when killing became so comfortable.”
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
“The idea that a loss of potential was somehow worse than a loss of achievement and knowledge was something she had never been able to wrap her brain around.”
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
― The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
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