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"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: life
752 people liked it

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: books, reading
2,044 people liked it

"The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness."
— Tim O'Brien (The Things They Carried)

14 people liked it

"But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget."
— Tim O'Brien (The Things They Carried)

tags: forgetting, remembering
2 people liked it

"When some is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: comfort, crying, tears
155 people liked it

"I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right."
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

tags: power-of-words
114 people liked it

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor
1,026 people liked it

"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen."
— John Steinbeck (The Winter of Our Discontent)

103 people liked it

"Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: aging, beauty
22 people liked it

"That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth."
— Tim O'Brien

tags: fiction, stories, truth, writing
27 people liked it

"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time"
— Neil Gaiman (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

149 people liked it

"A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth."
— Tim O'Brien (The Things They Carried)

tags: lies, truth, war
22 people liked it

"What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end..."
— Tim O'Brien (The Things They Carried)

3 people liked it

"Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories ar for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories ar for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story."
— Tim O'Brien (The Things They Carried)

8 people liked it

"The sad truth is the truth is sad."
— Lemony Snicket (The Hostile Hospital)

185 people liked it

"The light of morning decomposes everything."
— Haruki Murakami

tags: a-wild-sheep-chase
28 people liked it

"With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head."
— Tim O'Brien (If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home)

tags: fear
2 people liked it

"The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this."
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

tags: language, words
7 people liked it

"My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness."
— Anthony Swofford (Jarhead)

tags: boredom, despair, loneliness
4 people liked it

"Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it."
— Peter S. Beagle (A Fine and Private Place)

tags: giving, ravens
3 people liked it

"Well-read people are less likely to be criminals."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: humor, reading
327 people liked it

"There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous."
— Peter S. Beagle (A Fine and Private Place)

tags: honesty
6 people liked it

"Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself."
— Haruki Murakamki (Pinball, 1973)

1 person liked it

"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."
— Oscar Wilde

107 people liked it

"The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge."
— Ann-Marie MacDonald (Fall on Your Knees)

2 people liked it

"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
— George Orwell (1984)

51 people liked it

"Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree."
— George Orwell

11 people liked it

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
— George Orwell

tags: truth
540 people liked it

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."
— George Orwell (1984)

37 people liked it

"The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: oppression, power, terrorism, torture
2 people liked it

"That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing."
— Haruki Murakami

tags: art, writing
4 people liked it

"If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: secrets
7 people liked it

"In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)"
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windemere's Fan)

94 people liked it

"Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed. -- Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter"
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Blue Moon)

tags: love
144 people liked it

"Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Burnt Offerings (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #7))

tags: answers, questions
26 people liked it

"Condemned and executioner are not coupled in a primitive rite."
— Tanith Lee (Sabella)

3 people liked it

"Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it."
— Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)

tags: heart, love
10 people liked it

"Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero."
— Ursula K. LeGuin

10 people liked it

"Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it."
— Jenny Nimmo (Charlie Bone and the Time Twister)

17 people liked it

"The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility."
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)

tags: fragility, love
37 people liked it

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness.
We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Diary)

457 people liked it

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
— Elie Wiesel

176 people liked it

"Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you.
I'd been broken beyond repair."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

tags: heart-break, love
3,296 people liked it

"But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them."
— Ursula K. LeGuin (A Wizard of Earthsea)

tags: dragons
6 people liked it

"To light a candle is to cast a shadow..."
— Ursula K. LeGuin (A Wizard of Earthsea)

tags: darkness, equilibrium, light
2 people liked it

"My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day."
— John Steinbeck (East of Eden)

tags: imagination
6 people liked it

"People like you to be something, preferably what they are."
— John Steinbeck (East of Eden)

9 people liked it

"All great and precious things are lonely."
— John Steinbeck (East of Eden)

tags: loneliness
29 people liked it

"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch."
— Orson Welles

tags: food, humor
679 people liked it

"Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?"
— Cormac McCarthy (The Road)

27 people liked it

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