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“The measure of a man is what he does when he has power.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“And that, the monster said, is not the truth at all.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Laika says I’m not middle of the road. One time she said that I was the road. She said I was her post-apocalyptic highway.”
― Stefan Mohamed, Stuff

“How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“I’m interested in knowing the secrets that connect human beings. At the very deepest level, all our secrets are the same.”
― David Shields, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

“Lee, who oddly enough has no problem owning everything Apple ever puts out even though their serfs literally hurl themselves off buildings to escape the pain of putting the fucking things together.”
― Stefan Mohamed, Stuff

“The connectedness, actual real connectedness, not the fake bullshit connectedness that you get when you’re twatting about on MDMA, it’s like genuine telepathy or something, isn’t it?”
― Stefan Mohamed, Stuff

“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
― Edward Albee

“Although I maintain that if she were more perfect, she would be less interesting.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Love and war are two different battlefields.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Funny thing, watching gods realize they’ve been mortal all along.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment?”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“The appetizers were delicious, not because of the kitchen, but because all food eaten in anticipation of a kiss is delicious. The”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.”
― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

“The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“one of the smartest ways to write fiction today is to say that you’re not, and then to do whatever you very well please. Fiction writers, take note. Some of the best fiction is now being written as nonfiction.”
― David Shields, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

“Human memory, driven by emotional self-interest, goes to extraordinary lengths to provide evidence to back up whatever understanding of the world we have our hearts set on—however removed that may be from reality.”
― David Shields, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

“The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it”—so”
― David Shields, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

“You want to put in a little bit of David—the safe part of David—the David that you wouldn’t be afraid to show anybody, but there is a David that you don’t want to be in the film, and that’s what you should try to put in, if you don’t dare face yourself other ways. Confess things to the camera. Say the things you’re most ashamed of, things you don’t want to remember, things you don’t want anybody to know. Maybe that way there’ll be some truth.”
― David Shields, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

“Screw you, Hilo,” she snapped. “I can kill my ex-boyfriends myself.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade City

“In stories, when a giant was slain, it toppled thunderously to the ground. In reality, a giant died much the same way anything else did: screaming and shitting itself.”
― Nicholas Eames, Kings of the Wyld

“There will be craft beer, brewed by my flatmate on the balcony of our Penge new-build. The Death of Hackney tastes like a sort of fizzy Marmite and smells like a urinary tract infection and is yours for £13 a bottle. Enjoy.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“I distrust sweet cocktails and cheerful men for the same reason: It’s hard to tell how dangerous they are until they’ve knocked you on your ear.”
― Josiah Bancroft, The Hod King

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien