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“Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.”
― Melissa Bank, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

“We are all children until our fathers die.”
― Melissa Bank, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

“We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“I think I'm losing my bottle. I think I'm going tonto.”
― Martin Amis, Success

“Humikab ang dagat na parang leon
masarap sanang tumalon pero
BAWAL MAGTAPON NG BASURA
sabi ng alon.”
― Jose F. Lacaba, Salvaged Poems

“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life