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“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

“I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
― Norman Mailer

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)”
― Kathryn Lasky, The Capture

“Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“Got that gun?” Peter says to Tobias. “No,” says Tobias, “I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left it upstairs.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“You look older.”

“Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“Let me get this straight. So you left the Dauntless compound to get ready for war... and took your makeup bag with you?"
"Yep. Figured it would be harder for anyone to shoot me if they saw how devastatingly attractive I was...”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“Sometimes people just want to be happy, even if it's not real.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“My ambition was to live like music.”
― Mary Gaitskill

“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”
― Derek Walcott