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“Briggs: This is how you walk on eggshells?

Riley: Well, you know. Eggshells. If they're on the ground, they're probably already broken anyway.”
― Geonn Cannon

“Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?”
― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”
― Robert Frost

“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.”
― elie wiesel

“War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
― Anonymous

“It’s every man’s business to see justice done.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

“Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

“And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.”
― Martin Amis, London Fields

“The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.”
― Brandon Mull, Fablehaven

“Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.”
― Brian Rathbone, Regent

“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”
― Woody Allen