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“What is the point of living? Everything I care about is gone, swept away in a day and a night. So fast does the world change.”
― Indra Sinha, Animal's People

“. Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“The trick is to learn to believe that it's a disconnected world, a lunatic world, where what is true now was not true then; where Thou Shalt Not Kill and the fact that one has killed a great many men mean nothing, and absolutely nothing, for now is the time to raise legitimate children, and make money, and dress properly, and be kind to one's wife, and admire one's boss, and learn not to worry, and think of oneself as what? That makes no difference, he thought—I'm just a man in a gray flannel suit. I must keep my suit neatly pressed like anyone else, for I am a very respectable young man.”
― Sloan Wilson, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

“And it says, "You promised me." With that, she condemns me to life.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping