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“I don't have time to read popular fiction. I'm too busy with work.' Secretaries, he thought acidly, read that junk, at home in bed at night. It stimulates them. Instead of the real thing. Which they're afraid of. But of course really crave.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

“God, they read a book, he thought, and they spout on forever.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

“And this is the straight dope, right here. These people are not exactly human. They don the dress but they're like monkeys dolled up in the circus. They're clever and can learn, but that is all.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

“Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that ours is the only world; there must be world after world unseen by us, in some region or dimension that we simply do not percieve.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

“Have you noticed that if you really want something, you can make it happen? But you need to be sure it's what you really want, because sometimes, when it comes true, you realize too late that it's not what you wanted. Not at all.”
― Laura Resau, The Queen of Water

“All I have is a life's worth of school days. What came before school I can't remember. You can only sketch so many desks and teachers and chalkboards. You can only come home to so many dinners and homework assignments and nights of taking the garbage out. You can only go to so many museum field trips before you start to wonder, Is this it?”
― Nina LaCour, The Disenchantments

“Mmm, bacon.”
― Noel Jesse Heikkinen, Unchained: If Jesus Has Set Us Free, Why Don't We Feel Free?

“Was my happiness so completely tied to him now that I could only feel like myself when he was near?”
― Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

“We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“we lived in the gaps between the stories”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Being alive is nothing without being able to live.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Providence

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Joseph Conrad, Chance

“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
― Coco Chanel, Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman

“How tedious is a tyranny in the throes of enactment. It’s always the same plot.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“When you build walls between nations and people, you make every life smaller.”
― Gregory Scott Katsoulis, Access Restricted