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“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Are you ever not a pessimist?"

"Sometimes. But then I wake up.”
― Mira Grant, Feed

“Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“The only thing that isn't free is you. You do as you're told. You sit in your seat until they say 'Stand'. You stay put til they say 'Go'. Maybe that's the way you like it. It's easy. It's all there. You don't have to think about. You don't even have to feel it.”
― Melvin Burgess, Smack

“Everything has the quality of a dream when you choose to disconnect yourself from daily interaction with other people, and so, like a dream, you come to question the validity of what you see and hear.”
― David Llewellyn, Everything Is Sinister

“I remember a time when bookshops smelled of books and not coffee.”
― David Llewellyn, Everything Is Sinister

“If you are lucky enough to find somewhere you want to be, then you should be there.”
― Helen Cross, My Summer Of Love

“Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I thought how money was like food. The smell, the way it came in portions, how badly you needed it. How hungry you got for it, that acidic longing which burned and sickened in your stomach. Firm muscular control was needed over food and money. Money could kill you, wanting and needing it and fighting its power.”
― Helen Cross, My Summer Of Love

“That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“Anarchy loves theatre. That's the whole point. People forget that. You have to laugh at the devil, not fight him. They'll always have more guns, they'll always have more bombs that go off with a bigger bang. No matter how revolting you become they'll always be willing to be more revolting to you. They've had so much more practice.”
― Melvin Burgess, Smack

“Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained.”
― Douglas Coupland, Life After God

“I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.”
― Douglas Coupland, Life After God

“The fever of war that would presently clog vein and artery, deaden nerve, and destroy brain, had yet to develop.”
― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

“I went to a box room at the top of the house and locked myself in, in order to be alone with my aching miseries.”
― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

“When you're a monster, you are thanked and praised for not being a monster.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.”
― Douglas Coupland, Life After God

“When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they’re locked into jobs they hate; that they’re broke; that they spend every night watching videos; that they’re fifteen pounds overweight; that they no longer listen to new ideas. It’s profoundly depressing. ”
― Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.”
― Douglas Coupland, Life After God

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Faith is only a word, embroidered.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale