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“Faith is revelation. And in order to receive revelation you have to be open. Belief is about closing yourself off -- a lie you tell yourself to make the world fit in with how you've decided it should be. Real faith is an action - a verb. It's truth unfolding.”
― The Sweetness of Tears
― The Sweetness of Tears
“There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!”
― Finnikin of the Rock
― Finnikin of the Rock
“Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?”
― Finnikin of the Rock
― Finnikin of the Rock
“There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.”
― Warm Bodies
― Warm Bodies
“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
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