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“We can't continue treating people like monsters and then wondering why they have so few reservations about doing monstrous things”
― Anonymous

“the right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins”
― Anonymous

“Evidently some misguided rustic had herded diarrhetic cattle through the place and the management had yet to come to terms with the crisis.”
― Anonymous

“Are you all right, Hal?’ he asked. Hal eyed him balefully. ‘Of course I am. I’m making these strange noises because I’m overjoyed with the waves of agony that are running through my body,’ he said, through clenched teeth.”
― Anonymous

“I’ll kill him. I’ll cheerfully twist off his arms and beat him with the bloody ends.”
― Anonymous

“No, I won’t. That wouldn’t be civilized. I will, instead, sit him down and tell him calmly and rationally what a terrible, tasteless thing he has done. And then I will shoot him through his small, black heart.”
― Anonymous

“A warrior’s song is a lonely tune Full of fire and gone too soon Warriors sing of fallen friends Lost battles and bloody ends…”
― Anthony Ryan, Blood Song

“Choice is a lie. The greatest of lies.”
― Anthony Ryan, Blood Song

“A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'
What is it then?'
It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“Beware the seduction of the quick conclusion. Do not indulge in the answer you desire until you know all you need to know.”
― Anthony Ryan, Tower Lord