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“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?'

'REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX.”
― Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“We all act on what we know, what we see, what we are told and how we feel. The simple fact of the matter is that not a single one of us operates under identical influences. That is why the future is always uncertain.”
― Mark Hodder, The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack

“Every time we are faced with a choice, and we are faced with them every minute of every day, we make a decision to follow its course into the future. But what of the abandoned options? Are they like unopened doors? Do alternative futures lie beyond them? How far would we wander from the course we have steered were we to go back and, just once, open Door A instead of Door B?”
― Mark Hodder, The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack

“But maybe efficiency isn’t all it’s held up to be. Maybe it’s the inefficiencies and mistakes that give us the best impetus to change and grow and improve.”
― Mark Hodder, The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man

“Sometimes walking away is best. I should know. It's my specialty.”
― Joanne Harris, Peaches for Father Francis

“It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“A moment might be a thousand different things.”
― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“Either things grow and change or they die.”
― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Their hands never touched, not even in an accidental brushing, and that was a good thing, for real intimacy has a dawn.”
― Rita Leganski, The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow

“The mirror done broke and your life looking back at you from them sharp glass pieces.”
― Rita Leganski, The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow

“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“That's the way we're going nowadays. Everything slick and streamlined, everything made out of something else.”
― George Orwell, Coming Up for Air

“The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time,”
― George Orwell, Coming Up for Air