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“Where there’s life there’s hope.”

— The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (b. 3 January 1892)

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Merricat, said Connie, would you like a cup of tea? Oh no, said Merricat, you’ll poison me. Merricat, said Connie, would you like to go to sleep? Down in the boneyard ten feet deep!

Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts.

Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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A pretty sight, a lady with a book.

Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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Let get back to the main timeline.
Dazai got captured by Fyodor, and was locked up in Rat hideout.

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Interlude – One night, six years ago, at Bar Lupin.
Fyodor met Dazai after Dragon’s Head Conflict event had end.

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That’s true.

“I don’t like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.”

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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet, wit, dramatist

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The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness

Dazai Osamu, No longer Human

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Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes. That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell. Everything passes.

Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human

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from ml.books

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I don't like bullies. No one has a right to take or to hurt just because they can.

Pittacus Lore, The Rise of Nine

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Never underestimate human stupidity.

Pittacus Lore, The Fallen Legacies

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We didn’t have to be defined by the things we did or didn’t do in the past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it’s regret, maybe it’s not. It’s merely something that happened. Get over it.

Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four

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No. Don’t give up hope just yet. It’s the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.

Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four

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I imagine the future and I smile grimly. There’s only one way to make that happen. It’s time to fight.

Pittacus Lore, The Revenge of Seven

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Overconfidence gets you dead.

Pittacus Lore, United as One

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Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man