“Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.”
― New Moon
― New Moon
“The keynote of minority prejudice is this: They are loathed because they are feared.”
― I Am Legend
― I Am Legend
“When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.”
― The Road
― The Road
“There is an old children’s fable in which a frog and a scorpion meet at a rain-swollen creek. As the frog prepares to cross, the scorpion begs for a ride on his back. “I am afraid that you would sting me, and I would die,” the frog says. But the scorpion promises that he has no such intentions, and at last the frog agrees. However, halfway across the creek, the scorpion suddenly stings the frog. “But why?” asks the frog as he begins to slip beneath the surface of the water. “Now we will both drown!” “I couldn’t help it,” the scorpion says with a shrug. “It’s my nature.”
― Monster
― Monster
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