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“The immediate aim of the Communist is the same as that of all the other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat.”
― Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

“Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.”
― Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”
― Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

“Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”
― David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

“The rest of you get to sleep,” he added before slipping back into the shadows. “There’s likely to be killing soon. Best be fresh for it.”
― Anthony Ryan, The Black Song

“I drew my sword and made a slow arc to check the space. We had room to swing a cat if its tail wasn’t too long.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Broken Empire Trilogy: Prince of Thorns / King of Thorns / Emperor of Thorns

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Christ, we’re living in Sydney, the only town in the world where people are closet heteros.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Bat

“No snapping, slapping, no jolt. Those things happen when you wake from a bad dream, not when you wake into one.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“it. I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sandcastles, houses of cards, that’s where they begin. Their great skill is their capacity to escalate.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Don’t tell me what I’m doing, I don’t want to know.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Of course, one must always remember that although The Sound of Music is the most feel-good movie musical of all time, it is crammed full of Nazis.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse

“The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

“Walking, eh?’ said the officer. ‘Just walking?’ I nodded and waited for the obvious truth to sink in. ‘Well,’ said the officer, ‘don’t do it again!’ And the police car drove away.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“I REGARD,” Chopper Jim said judiciously, “all forms of organized religion as a blight, an abomination and a public nuisance. It is the fifth horseman of the Apocalypse. I’m not talking about the guy who takes a vow of silence, or poverty, or celibacy”—he shivered—“and goes and sits on top of a mountain to meditate for the rest of his life.” He fixed Kate with a stern look. “It’s the people who follow him up that mountain, and then come back down and beat His word into their fellow man who annoy me.” She didn’t reply, and he forked up a french fry. Mutt, well aware of who was the soft touch at this table, sat pressed against his side, looking yearningly up into his face. He forked up another french fry and she took it delicately between her teeth, casting him a look of adoration in the process. “Most of those people—not all, I admit—but most of the people who subscribe to organized religion are too lazy and or too frightened to answer the hard questions themselves, and so hand their souls over for safe-keeping to a bunch of thieves and charlatans who know more about separating fools from their money than they do about God. Any God.” He took a bite of cheeseburger. “Religion is a crutch. You lean on it long enough, you forget how to walk on your own two feet.”
― Dana Stabenow, Play With Fire

“Justice is a human concept, as flawed as any. There is no reliable justice in this world and, given human nature, never can be. Politics, bigotry, envy, ignorance . . . Those forces and others redefine justice day by day, until it means something different to everyone—until it means nothing at all.”
― Dean Koontz, Red Rain

“Beware the monster behind the door, watch out for the spiders all over the floor. Be brave like your father, proud warrior and all, Something is gnawing at bones in the hall. Maybe you’ll run, or maybe you’ll fight, Maybe sleep soundly all through the night. Never you mind, now close your eyes, Pray you sleep well, not be food for the flies.”
― Ben Galley, The Written

“She was graceful—but it was the dexterous grace of a predator, not the deliberate grace of a courtly lady.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“How do you know a Beetle’s breaking into your house? He knocks first.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, War Master's Gate

“So I prepped the big hopper to go to the other side of the planet. (And yes, I had to pull up the instructions.)”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red

“The Gatekeeper joined the rest of the Senior Council, and they trooped back up to their podiums. Podii. Podia.”
― Jim Butcher, Summer Knight

“Duty,’ Rand muttered. ‘Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.”
― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

“Do not cut off your ears because you do not like your earrings,”
― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

“If you know that much,’ I said, ‘if you are that powerful, why did you hire a bodyguard to bring you here?’ ‘My feet don’t reach the pedals.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

“I wouldn’t sleep in the same room with a person who would smack Mickey Mouse.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

“The woman said frog and expected people to jump.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“The stories said evil could not cross your threshold unless you invited it in.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“Do you defend niggers, Atticus?’ I asked him that evening. ‘Of course I do. Don’t say nigger, Scout. That’s common.’ ‘’s what everybody at school says.’ ‘From now on it’ll be everybody less one –”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird