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“[T]hose of us who dream of impossible things know just how far we can go when pushed to do so.”

“We all have our issues. I have a spare tire around my middle. His father is Satan. Nothing that can’t be worked out if we try hard enough.”
This book has great lines and great deeper meanings!

“When something is broken, you can put it back together. It may not fit quite the same, or work like it did before, but that doesn’t mean it’s no longer useful.”

“As long as you listen, you can hear all manner of things you never thought were there to begin with.”

“How can we fight prejudice if we do nothing to change it? If we allow it to fester, what’s the point?”

“I am parched parchment. I have lines. I have holes. Get me wet, and I melt. Light me on fire, and I burn. Take me in hardened hands, and I crumple. I tear. I am but paper. Brittle and thin.”

“I am but paper. Brittle and thin. I am held up to the sun, and it shines right through me. I get written on, and I can never be used again. These scratches are history. They’re a story. They tell things for others to read, but they only see the words, and not what the words are written upon. I am but paper, and though there are many like me nine are exactly the same.”

“Just because you don’t experience prejudice in your everyday doesn’t stop it from existing for the rest of us.”

“‘Fire and ash…’’Death and destruction! I the harbinger of calamity, will bring pestilence and plague to the people of this world…’
‘That was a lovely story, Lucy…. I especially like your use of metas. Keep in mind that pestilence and plague are technically the same thing, so it did get a little repetitious at the end, but other than that, quite impressive.’l