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It's better to lose someone you love than to have no one to lose.

Visitors - Orson Scott Card

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Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind. Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card

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No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card

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It had become one of the defining truths of my life that, no matter how I tried to keep them flattened, two-dimensional, jailed in paper and ink, there would always be stories that refused to stay bound inside books. It was never just a story.

Library of Souls - Ransom Riggs

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He sauntered around Olympus in his gleaming robes with his bow and arrow, winking at the ladies and high-fiving the dudes, or sometimes winking at the dudes and high-fiving the ladies. Apollo didn't care. He figured everybody loved him.

Percy Jackson's Greek Gods - Rick Riordan

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The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

The Plague - Albert Camus

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If love is our reason we may veer off course sometimes, but we’ll never be lost.

Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 - Richard Paul Evans

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Sometimes we can’t know what’s right. We can only know that we meant to do the right thing—and that we had the right reason.

Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 - Richard Paul Evans

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No, you can't understand. You're using the language of reason, not of the heart; you live in a world of abstractions.

The Plague - Albert Camus

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They read fantasy books, this is fun for them, people leaving the earth, possessing cosmic time, different worlds. They can't be afraid of death in the way that adults are afraid of death, but death interests them as something fantastical.

Voices From Chernobyl - Svetlana Alexievich

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The mechanism of evil will work under conditions of the apocalypse, also. That's what I understood. Man will gossip, and kiss up to the bosses, and save his television and ugly fur coat. And people will be the same until the end of time. Always.

Voices From Chernobyl - Svetlana Alexievich (Sergei Gurin)

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Believe me, if you don't believe yourself. Getting over something like this takes time. It won't be better today. Not tomorrow, either. Maybe in a year, though, it won't be like this. Maybe in a year you'll have mostly forgotten. But it will still be there.

Ship Breaker - Paolo Bacigalupi

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Even gods can’t last forever. I don’t expend my energy trying to fight the change of seasons. I focus on making sure the days I have, and the season I oversee, are as joyful, rich, and plentiful as possible.

The Sword of Summer - Rick Riordan

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People have destructive impulses. Some of us want to see the world in ruins just for the fun of it . . . even if we're ruined along with it.

The Sword of Summer - Rick Riordan

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Myths are simply stories about truths we've forgotten.

The Sword of Summer - Rick Riordan

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We are who we are. When changes come, we start with what we are right then, and then we work to try to become whoever we need to be.

Ruins - Orson Scott Card

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The cycle of life exists in order to perpetuate the cycle of life.

Ruins - Orson Scott Card