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“Embrace your enemy,” the elders urged, “to prevent him striking you.” (“Embrace your enemy,” Henry quipped, “to feel his dagger tickle your kidneys.”)”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“I said something about reading not being knowledge, about knowledge without experience being food without sustenance.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Now I seen Mauna Kena from Honokaa b'fore, o'course, but a mountain you're planning on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty, nay.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“The first of ‘Goose’s Two Laws of Survival.’ It runs thus, ‘The weak are meat the strong do eat.’ ” ... Henry grinned in the dark & cleared his throat. “The second law of survival states that there is no second law. Eat or be eaten. That’s it.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Imago

“The differences you perceive between Humans—between groups of Humans—are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments”
― Octavia E. Butler, Adulthood Rites

“Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can’t do with an ugly one? Nothing. It’s just a matter of preference.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Adulthood Rites

“It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“I mean that the escape of knowledge into the realm of wider society irretrievably alters the nature of our lives.”
― Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker

“You need to relax and be yourself, not whoever it is you’re trying to be in your mad little head. I bloody don’t, though. I’m me and I’m good at it.”
― Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker

“Faith has always struck him as either a tremendous gift or an appalling deception, depending on whether there’s a God or not.”
― nick harkaway, Angelmaker

“Your life is not a movie, Pat. Life is not a movie. You’re an Eagles fan. After watching so many NFL seasons without a Super Bowl, you should know that real life often ends poorly.”
― mathew quick

“Ain't no man can outrun his fate.”
― Esi Edugyan, Half Blood Blues

“Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.”
― Esi Edugyan, Half Blood Blues

“What is luck but something made to run out.”
― Esi Edugyan, Half Blood Blues

“There is less danger in fearing too much than too little”
― Laura Andersen, The Boleyn Deceit

“What for do we nail down the dead?”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“But it is no use to justify yourself. It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“I stepped away from the car preparing my own smile because you catch more flies with honey than you do with shit.”
― Bruce Blake, On Unfaithful Wings

“Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone