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#1

“Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.”
― Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters

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#2

“It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: inspirational

501 likes

#3

“The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

301 likes

#4

“I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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#5

“Shakespeare would have it wrong these days. It's not the world that's the stage - it's social media, where you're trying to put on a show. The rest of your life is rehearsals, prepping in the wings to be fabulous online.”
― Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters

25 likes

#6

“People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: humor

600 likes

#7

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: classics

4735 likes

#8

“Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.”
― Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas

tags: self-extinction

60 likes

#9

“Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.”
― Iain Banks

tags: writing-process

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#10

“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: death, fear, life

1014 likes

#11

“But how can you have a sense of wonder if you’re prepared for everything?”
― Margaret Atwood, Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

tags: sense-of-wonder

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#12

“Everyone has their own version of a memory,”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

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#13

“The only power that exists is inside ourselves.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

tags: confidence

389 likes

#14

“I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

tags: rebirth, wonder

138 likes

#15

“Truth is a matter of the imagination.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: imagination, truth

400 likes

#16

“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: hurt, love, science-fiction

467 likes

#17

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

6643 likes

#18

“A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: innocence, machines, sin

28 likes

#19

“The tea seemed to be making things better. It was a hot drink made of leaves, used in times of crisis as a means of restoring normality.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans

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#20

“To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

170 likes

#21

“What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?”
― S.J. Watson, Before I Go to Sleep

tags: human-nature, memories

252 likes

#22

“There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.”
― Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls

tags: chaos, pattern-recognition, randomness

32 likes

#23

“Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

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