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Sounded like one of those poems on the inner flap of a magazine.
“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
― Lord of the Flies
― Lord of the Flies
“Someday, Locke Lamora,” he said, “someday, you’re going to fuck up so magnificently, so ambitiously, so overwhelmingly that the sky will light up and the moons will spin and the gods themselves will shit comets with glee. And I just hope I’m still around to see it.”
“Oh please,” said Locke. “It’ll never happen.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“Oh please,” said Locke. “It’ll never happen.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“the horror of the unknown is more frightening than any horror you can understand”
― The Girl With All the Gifts
― The Girl With All the Gifts
“There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
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