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“I don't know why, but watching someone else break made me feel a lot less broken.”
― Wesley King, OCDaniel

“It's funny to be a prisoner of yourself. Like you're being bullied by your own mind and you're afraid of it, but it's also you and it's extremely confusing.”
― Wesley King, OCDaniel

“And I'm here too. You're weird and moody and maybe a little crazy, but you're also the most interesting person I've ever met. Trust me, you are special. And from now on, maybe you should stop trying so hard to be alone.”
― Wesley King, OCDaniel

“watching someone else break made me feel a lot less broken.”
― Wesley King, OCDaniel

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“...Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative...”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, A Soviet Heretic: Essays

“If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin

“She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me — and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I knew: this is how it must be. I knew it with every nerve, and every hair, every heartbeat, so sweet it verged on pain. And what joy to submit to this 'must'. A piece of iron must feel such joy as it submits to the precise, inevitable law that draws it to a magnet. Or a stone, thrown up, hesitating a moment, then plunging headlong back to earth. Or a man, after the final agony, taking a last deep breath — and dying.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (“Tomorrow”)”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Hey"--I shrugged--"If Aru Shah can have adventures in her pajamas, why can't I?”
― Carlos Hernandez, Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe

“WHEN I’M GOOD, I’M VERY GOOD, BUT WHEN I’M BAD, I’M BETTER.”—MAE WEST.”
― Carlos Hernandez, Sal and Gabi Break the Universe

“I think my show was more beautiful. Like, it would have made for prettier pictures on Insta. But now, we're gonna have way better memes.”
― Carlos Hernandez, Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe

“I'd smacked directly into Florida's patent-pending Wall of Humidity.”
― Carlos Hernandez

“I am Sal Vidon. Have I not proven that I am the MASTER OF CHICKENS?!”
― Carlos Hernandez

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear.”
― Carlos Hernandez, Sal and Gabi Break the Universe

“butt,”
― Carlos Hernandez, Sal and Gabi Break the Universe

“and started to unlock the door. On the other side of the door, a bunch of voices started talking at the same time. “What the—?” “Oh God, it’s late! We’re behind schedule!” “We gotta hide the—!” “Stall them! Stall them!” I don’t know about you, but that sounded like a burglary in progress to me. Gabi and I traded looks. “Who’s in your house?” she asked. “I don’t know,” I said.”
― Carlos Hernandez, Sal and Gabi Break the Universe

“Oh<" said American Stepmom, nodding fast, her flying squirrel hoodie nodding one second slower than her head. "Yes, yes, of course. But What if the X factor starts to dance the electric bugaloo with my sonic screwdriver and I get sent back to ancient Egypt?”
― Carlos Hernandez, Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe

“And that got him to realize that, dressed only in his bathrobe, he was just one gust of wind away from being sued by our entire neighborhood for crimes against humanity. Even now his Poocha Loocha Libre boxers were disturbingly visible. I'd seen them before-they were a Father's Day present from me-but never on him. So now I needed to go eat my own eyeballs.”
― Carlos Hernandez, Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe

“tried the My Little Pony approach to handling bullies. “Sorry. Just trying to help.” And I started to walk away.”
― Carlos Hernandez, Sal and Gabi Break the Universe