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“You understand quite completely that the main lesson of history is: humans don’t learn from history. The twenty-first century could still turn out to be a bad cover version of the twentieth, but what could we do? People’s minds across the world were filling with utopias that could never overlap. It was a recipe for disaster, but, alas, a familiar one. Empathy was waning, as it often had. Peace was made of porcelain, as it always was.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“Not all pain is worth it,’ said Tipper. ‘Some pain is just pain.”
― E. Lockhart, Family of Liars

“Betrayals don’t cancel each other out. They just hurt more.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After