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“Questions are good,” Jackaby said. “Questions are to the clever mind as coal is to the stoker. I will worry more when we run out of them.”
It looked like precisely the sort of place where a living body might go if it wanted to become a dead one.
It is the ugliest aspect of human nature that we fear what is most different from ourselves with such violent contempt.”
“you will remember that monsters pick on the weak and the harmless because it is the monsters who are afraid.”
“There is something humbling about knowing that an entity capable of moving mountains and reshaping continents still takes the time to tend to the smallest patch of dirt. Little things matter.
This city is alive. It has a soul, and that soul is a glorious mess of beliefs and cultures all swirling together into something precious and strange and new.”
Kindness is an act of bravery, I think, just as hatred is an act of fear.
