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“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader may see what they are made of."

[From the preface.]”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“How can you hold your ground when everyone around you is trying to bury you beneath it?”
― Shane Koyczan, To This Day: For the Bullied and Beautiful

“...bravery often demands a price.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy