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“When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“The world will make you vulnerable. If you're acting like you're not, that's what you're doing. Acting”
― Bill Konigsberg, The Music of What Happens

“I stand and hold out my hand. She gives me a skeptical look, but takes it and lets me pull her to her feet. I put my other hand in the air. 'Bronwyn Rojas, I solemnly swear not to murder you today or at any point in the future. Deal?'
'You're ridiculous,' she mutters, going even redder.
'It concerns me you're avoiding a promise not to murder me.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“Man, I could get used to this thing where I don’t think I’m a total piece of shit all the time.”
― Bill Konigsberg, The Music of What Happens

“And, once again, the bears showed us.

There they were, God help us, the Ledgers of the Earth, written in clouds and glaciers and sediments, tallied in the colours of the sun and the moon as light passed through the millennial sap of every living thing, and we looked upon it all with dread. Ours was not the only fiscal system in the world, it turned out. And worse, our debt was severe beyond reckoning. And worse than worse, all the capital we had accrued throughout history was a collective figment of the human imagination: every asset, stock and dollar. We owned nothing. The bears asked us to relinquish our hold on all that never belonged to us in the first place.

Well, this we simply could not do.

So we shot the bears.”
― Shaun Tan, Tales from the Inner City

“Maybe this is what our young doppelgangers failed to understand. They believed their good example would be enough. That being right was enough. They knew nothing about injured pride or the true inertia of human nature.”
― Shaun Tan, Tales from the Inner City

“But sir, I'm seventeen," I reply bluntly. "I'm genetically programmed to want to make statements.”
― Sarah Ayoub, The Yearbook Committee

“Life isn't a destination. It's the continual practice of things that make you wiser and happier.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Permanent Record