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“Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.”
― Stephen King, It

“I love you. And I'm going to keep loving you even after you don't know I exist.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Unbound

“Doía-me a vida, doía-me a vida que em ti se negava, a vida a gastar-te, ainda que a amasses, a vida a derrubar-te, ainda que a amasses.”
― José Luís Peixoto, Morreste-me

“Everyone should have this, he thought, and perhaps, at the end, everyone does. Perhaps in their time of dying, everyone rises.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“Take off your coat."
"Excuse me?"
"Take it off."
"No."
"I want it off."
"Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you. [Vishous to Jane]”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Unbound

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
― Stephen King, It

“Tudo o que te sobreviveu me agride.”
― José Luís Peixoto, Morreste-me

“The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Sometimes dead is better”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“As long as the sun’s shining, shit can’t be that bad.”
― J. Lynn, Wait for You

“I’m guessing the sky is full of stars?” “It is, but the only ones that matter are the ones you see.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Storm and Fury

“I was having an emotion, and I hate that.”
― Martha Wells, Exit Strategy

“I said, "Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas. (Yes, that was sarcasm.)”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol

“Young humans can be impulsive. The trick is keeping them around long enough to become old humans.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“ART said, "I want an apology."
I made an obscene gesture at the ceiling with both hands. (I know ART isn't the ceiling but the humans kept looking up there like it was.)
ART said, "That was unnecessary."
In a low voice, Ratthi commented to Overse, "Anyone who thinks machine intelligences don't have emotions needs to be in this very uncomfortable room right now.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“No hugging,” I warned her. It was in our contract.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“Ugh, emotions.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“Nobody fucking listens to me.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“It’s a good thing I don’t have a full human digestive system because I was so startled something would have popped out of it involuntarily.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“That didn’t make any sense but using logic with traumatized humans never works. (I could make a remark there about logic not working with humans, period, but I’m not going to do that.)”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“I don’t want to not see you again.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“I can also be kind of an asshole. (“Kind of” = in the 70 percent–80 percent range.)”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“Amena is on the survey because her education requires an internship in almost getting killed, I guess.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect