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“A bud is a flower-to-be. A flower in waiting. Waiting for just the right warmth and care to open up. It's a little fist of love waiting to unfold and be seen by the world. And that's you.”

- Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis

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“Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”

- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson

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- One Hour to Kill, George Harmon Coxe

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“Survival is insufficient.”

- Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

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“Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.”

-Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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"People said that the dead looked like they were only sleeping, but it had never seemed that way to me. To me, there was nothing there at all. An empty house. An abandoned world."

- Jeff Hirsch, The Eleventh Plague

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"I don't think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible." - James Dashner, The Death Cure

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"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." -J.D Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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"You don’t wanna go out of this world with regrets. If there’s something you want to do, you do it. You take this life by the balls and you tell it that you existed." -Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up

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What Are You DOING? says a voice in my brain. But I can't control can't stop. - Lily Myers, this impossible light

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"Two things to begin with. First, we go on the premise that Dr. Lecter really knows something concrete. second, we remember that Lecter looks only for the fun. Never forget fun." - Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

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"He turned to look just in time to see the rain start falling out as if the storm had finally decided to weep with shame for what it had done to them." - James Dashner, The Scorch Trials

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"Minho nodded and faced the crowd. 'Be careful,' he said dryly. 'Don't die.' Thomas would have laughed if he could, but he was too scared for it to come out. 'Great. We're all bloody inspired,' Newt answered." - James Dashner, The Maze Runner

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“of the langoliers, who obviously did not know, they were lurking everywhere, behind every bush and tree, in every shadow, just over the horizon… The langoliers had come for all the foolish, lazy people, just as his father had always said they would.”

-Stephen King, The Langoliers

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“They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially ‘colonised’ it. So technically, I colonised Mars. In your face, Neil Armstrong!” ― Andy Weir, The Martian

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“Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.” ― Albert Camus, The Stranger