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“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Don't Panic.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“She was a non-active member of the Order of the Eternal Flame and did not fight.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“You’re like a rose in a graveyard,” he said, and his lips twisted into a bitter smile. “I wonder what you could have turned into without the war.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“Someday, she promised herself, someday I am going to love him in a moment that isn't stolen”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“He’d loved her, even though he never expected them to be anything but doomed. He’d loved her all the same.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“My pain was never more valuable than his potential.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“Most of us understand that your future is not promised to you. It is constructed day by day, through the choices you make. Your future is earned, little by little, through hard work and action. If you don’t act accordingly, that dream dissolves.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“But as a friend once told me, “Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“It’s much easier to tell yourself you’re a good person than it is to actually be one.”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

“Truth over delusion. Growth over comfort.”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

“I’m starting to understand how ridiculous it is to demand civility when the world is so disgustingly uncivil.”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

“Being alive is not the same as living. I hope someday you'll have a chance to realise the difference.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“She couldn’t fix herself anymore, and no one else seemed inclined to even notice she was breaking.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“Still, humans were humans. They wanted you to know their opinions about your body, even if you hadn’t asked.”
― Annalee Newitz, Automatic Noodle

“It was, she supposed, a way of defying death. Necessities helped people survive, but joyful excess gave them life.”
― Annalee Newitz, Automatic Noodle

“Thanks. I really don’t want to get sent back to America. Fuck that place. It’s a hellhole run by garbage cans.”
― Annalee Newitz, Automatic Noodle

“What would it be like to reflect on his days, rather than trying vainly to forget them?”
― Annalee Newitz, Automatic Noodle