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“...I suppose about the only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.”
― Booth Tarkington, Alice Adams

“You see?" she said. "I've been leading you without you knowing it. Of course that's because you're new to the town, and you give yourself up to the guidance of an old citizen."

"I'm not so sure, Miss Adams. It might mean that I don't care where I follow so long as I follow you.”
― Booth Tarkington, Alice Adams

“We like to think we’re brave, but in the end, we’re only human.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Song Rising

“The only way to survive is to believe you always will.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Song Rising

“The wonderful thing about living in a morally bankrupt world is that every human being can be bought in one way or another. Everyone accepts a currency. Money, mercy, the illusion of power – there are always ways to purchase loyalty.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Song Rising

“The thing about pain is, it teaches you humility.”
― Robert R. McCammon

“I understood then what courage was all about. It is loving someone else more than you love yourself.”
― Robert R. McCammon

“...you never know people through and through and that everybody's got a part they don't show.”
― Robert R. McCammon

“I hoped she would never lock her smile away, and forget where she'd put the key.”
― Robert R. McCammon

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent