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“Gli trasmettevano un senso profondo di odio, forse perché erano così alieni da pregiudicare in lui qualsiasi percezione reale della loro sostanza.”
― Stephen King, Under the Dome

“Non lasciare che qualcuno cerchi di convincerti che i bambini non si portino dietro i loro rancori nella vita da adulti.”
― Stephen King, Under the Dome

“La paranoia perfetta è perfetta consapevolezza.”
― Stephen King, Under the Dome

“E' folle. Morirete."
"Se restiamo qui, vivremo?”
― Stephen King, Under the Dome

“E' una bambina che è stata punita per la sua innocente superbia, una bambina che ha commesso l'errore di pensare di essere grande quando era piccola, di contare quando non valeva niente, di essere circondata dall'affetto del mondo quando in realtà il mondo non è che un enorme locomotore morto, con un motore ma senza fanale.”
― Stephen King, Under the Dome

“That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait to die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Let them see that their words can cut you, and you'll never be free of the mockery.”
― G.R.R. Martin

“...And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things." Tyrion Lannister placed a hand over his heart and grinned.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Big white whale is a metaphor for everything. You live for pretentious metaphors.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The things we love destroy us every time.”
― G.R.R. Martin

“Name one hero who was happy.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Do you think Aristos Achaion fights in hopeless wars?”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“E'stata reale prima di tutti noi. Siamo solo nati ottocento anni troppo tardi per poterla incontrare.”
― Cecilia Randall, Hyperversum

“She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.”
― China Miéville, Perdido Street Station

“I can dig my claws into the rim of a building's crown and spread my arms and feel the buffets and gouts of boisterous air and I can close my eyes and remember, for a moment, what it is to fly.”
― China Miéville, Perdido Street Station

“When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”
― John Green

“Wow, a world without darkness. How beautiful was that?”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“I thought it might be a great thing to be the air. I could be something and nothing all at the same time. I could be necessary and also invisible. Everyone would need me and no one would be able to see me.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“You're fighting this war in the worst way possible."
"I don't know how to fight it, Dad."
"You should ask for help," he said.
"I don't know how to do that, either.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Scars. A sign that you had been hurt. A sign that you had healed.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“The point is that you are an individual inasmuch as you exist in a social matrix of others who respect your individuality and your right to make choices. That's concrete individuality: an individuality that it owes its existence to a kind of communal respect on the part of all the other individualities, and that it had better therefore respect them similarly.”
― China Miéville, Perdido Street Station

“[Companies] mistook a lack of competition for success.”
― Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic Restructuring

“Rules do not determine outcomes - the players still have to make choices - but they make some outcomes more likely than others, by defining what it means to "win", and by creating incentives for and imposing constraints on the players.”
― Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic Restructuring

“The weakest would be put out of service rather than be allowed to compromise the whole system.”
― Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic Restructuring

“Losers [...] gain psychic satisfaction from belonging to a winning cause.”
― Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic Restructuring

“L'angelo sa di essere indistruttibile. Paradossalmente, è proprio questa sua certezza che lo rende tale.”
― Alan Campbell, Iron Angel