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Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.
“I was never going to amount to much anyway,” Samson says, “but now, statistically speaking, there’s a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I’d rather be partly great than entirely useless.”
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“There are no wrong thoughts, only thoughts that need to be worked through and overcome.”
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Even if it risks everything, he’s got to balance it somehow. He’s got to do something decent, something good to make up for the awful consequence
“First rule of motherhood, dearie: Men are screwups. Learn it now and you’ll be a whole lot happier.”
One thing you learn when you’ve lived as long as I have—people aren’t all good, and people aren’t all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I’m pleased to be in the light.”
“You can’t change laws without first changing human nature,” one of the nurses often said as she looked out over the crowd of crying infants. Her name was Greta. Whenever she said something like that, there was always another nurse within earshot who was far more accepting of the system and would counter with, “You can’t change human nature without first changing the law.”
Which was worse, Risa often wondered—to have tens of thousands of babies that no one wanted, or to silently make them go away before they were even born?
heroes are supposed to behave in very specific ways. They’re supposed to fight, even if it means risking their lives.
the pawnbroker’s success is based on the misery of others.
A person don’t got a soul until that person is loved. If a mother loves her baby—wants her baby—it’s got a soul from the moment she knows it’s there.
you don’t just go to somebody and say, “I’m a better person because you’re in my head.”
a conflict always begins with an issue—a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a
war, the issue doesn’t matter anymore, because now it’s about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.”
if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened… but people like to keep what’s theirs, even after they’re dead.
It’s amazing that something as simple as a kiss can overpower the worst of worries.
Just as the airplane graveyard was Heaven disguised as Hell, harvest camp is Hell masquerading as Heaven.
his heart has been hardened. He wishes it could be hard enough to be diamond instead of crumbling jade—maybe
Even a place as harsh as this can be beautiful in a certain light.
