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“I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“The measure of a man is what he does when he has power.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“I hope your bacon burns.”
― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“A heart's a heavy burden.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Break the chains, my love.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“I was more ass than assassin.”
― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools

“Feelings don't have to be wise, they just are.”
― Robin Hobb

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“He has wondered lately if that's all living really is—one long goodbye to those we love.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“Silence creates its own violence.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation