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“When you refuse to ask for help, it tells others that they also shouldn’t ask for help from you. That you look down on them for needing your help. That you like feeling superior to them. It’s an insult, Emi, to your friends and peers. So don’t be like that. Let us in.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross

“A life is like a wave in the river. It rises and then disappears back into the river. It rises again somewhere else. The rising and falling doesn't make a lot of difference."
"You mean it doesn't matter," said Ompati, "if Milo saved your life."
"It doesn't matter," said the Master, fixing his eyes on Ompati, "to the river.”
― Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

“If you come from where I come from, all you do is want. And if you had even the smallest taste of what I have, you would never stop wanting.”
― Danielle Paige

“Langdon decided not to say another word all evening. Sophie Neveu was clearly a hell of a lot smarter than he was.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code