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    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: fate, humor, simile
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
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    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    E.M. Carroll
    “Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time...

    But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once.”
    ― Emily Carroll, Through the Woods
    tags: danger, luck, scary, wolf, woods
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    E.M. Carroll
    “It came from the woods. Most strange things do.”
    ― Emily Carroll, Through the Woods
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    E.M. Carroll
    “I married my love in the springtime, / but by summer he’d locked me away. / He’d murdered me dead by the autumn, / and by winter I was naught but decay”
    ― Emily Carroll
    tags: heartache
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    E.M. Carroll
    “But the worst kind of monster was the burrowing kind. The sort that crawled into you and made a home there. The sort you couldn't name, the sort you couldn't see. The monster that ate you alive from the inside out.”
    ― Emily Carroll
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: description, language, power-of-words, words
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: fear, name-of-the-wind, patrick-rothfuss, wisdom
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    Michel Faber
    “Shared suffering, she’d found, was no guarantee of intimacy.”
    ― Michel Faber, Under the Skin
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    Michel Faber
    “The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.”
    ― Michel Faber, Under the Skin
    tags: future, past
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    Michel Faber
    “In the end, though, vodsels couldn't do any of the things that really defined a human being. They couldn't siuwil, the couldn't mesnishtil,they had no concept of slan.”
    ― Michel Faber, Under the Skin
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    Michel Faber
    “The variety of shapes, colours and textures under her feet was, she believed, literally infinite. It must be. Each shell, each pebble, each stone had been made what it was by aeons of submarine or subglacial massage. The indiscriminate, eternal devotion of nature to its numberless particles had an emotional importance for Isserley; it put the unfairness of human life into perspective.”
    ― Michel Faber, Under the Skin
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    Michel Faber
    “Strange how a specimen like him, well cared for, healthy, free to roam the world, and blessed with a perfection of form which would surely have allowed him to breed with a greater selection of females than average, could still be so miserable. By contrast, other males, scarred by neglect, riddled with diseases, spurned by their kind, were occasionally known to radiate a contentment that seemed to arise from something more enigmatic than mere stupidity.”
    ― Michel Faber, Under the Skin
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “Beware:
    At war
    Or at peace,
    More people die
    Of unenlightened self-interest
    Than of any other disease.”
    ― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents
    tags: death, peace, science-fiction, self-interest, selfishness, unenlightened-self-interest, war
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “Beware:
    Ignorance
    Protects itself.
    Ignorance
    Promotes suspicion.
    Suspicion
    Engenders fear.
    Fear quails,
    Irrational and blind,
    Or fear looms,
    Defiant and closed.
    Blind, closed,
    Suspicious, afraid,
    Ignorance
    Protects itself,
    And protected,
    Ignorance grows.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents
    tags: truth
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “Choose your leaders
    with wisdom and forethought.
    To be led by a coward
    is to be controlled
    by all that the coward fears.
    To be led by a fool
    is to be led
    by the opportunists
    who control the fool.
    To be led by a thief
    is to offer up
    your most precious treasures
    to be stolen.
    To be led by a liar
    is to ask
    to be told lies.
    To be led by a tyrant
    is to sell yourself
    and those you love
    into slavery.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents
    tags: cowards, fools, leaders, leadership, liars, thieves, tyrants
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “When I meet a woman who attracts me, I prefer women,' she said. 'And when I meet a man who attracts me, I prefer men.'

    'You mean you haven't made up your mind yet.'

    'I mean exactly what I said. I told you you wouldn't like it. Most people who ask want me definitely on one side or the other.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler, Patternmaster
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler
    tags: conscience, honor, writing
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler
    tags: fantasy, process, science-fiction, writing
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    Octavia E. Butler
    “In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.”
    ― Octavia E. Butler, Wild Seed
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    Lionel Shriver
    “...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”
    ― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
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    Lionel Shriver
    “I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.”
    ― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
    tags: damage, sad, safe, safety
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    Lionel Shriver
    “Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.”
    ― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
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    Lionel Shriver
    “It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.”
    ― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
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    Lionel Shriver
    “You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.”
    ― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
    tags: good-hearted, gullibility, innocence
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    Lionel Shriver
    “Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.”
    ― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
    tags: attachment, life, loss
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    Lionel Shriver
    “Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.”
    ― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
    tags: dangerous, expectations
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    Lionel Shriver
    “The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.”
    ― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
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