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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“Debugging: what an odd word. As if "bugging" were the job of putting in bugs, and debugging the task of removing them. But no. The job of putting in bugs is called programming. A programmer writes some code and inevitably makes the mistakes that result in the malfunctions called bugs. Then, for some period of time, normally longer than the time it takes to design and write the code in the first place, the programmer tries to remove the mistakes.”
― Ellen Ullman, The Bug

“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I am, I guess, depressed. I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years. I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there - hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen within my stunted, childish body - a Libby that's telling me to get up, do something, grow up, move on. But the meanness usually wins out. (2)”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“ALL THAT HAPPENS MUST BE KNOWN.”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle

“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Do you shave them to conform to what society—and by society I mainly mean the male gaze—expects of you or just simply for your own esthetic reasons?”
― Harper Bliss, Beneath the Surface

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.”
― Mark Twain

“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“A girl with a guitar never has to apologize for anything.”
― Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

“Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs