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“Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.”
― Umberto Eco

“People really are like house with vast rooms and tiny windows. And maybe it's a good thing, the way we never stop surprising each other.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“People are shameless when it comes to cake. It's a beautiful thing to see.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crime. Which side of a river you called home.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold

“When life is a cell, there is nothing more liberating than captivity.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold

“You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep”
― Alfred De Musset, Lorenzaccio

“L'humanité souleva sa robe et me montra, comme à un adepte digne d'elle, sa monstrueuse nudité.”
― Alfred de Musset, Lorenzaccio

“The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“What's the point of being old if you can't beleaguer the young with your vast stores of wisdom?

And what's the point of being young if you can't ignore all advice?”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

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

“There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Sanity is a valuable possesion; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are. So I will go on. So I will myself to go on.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“I wonder what life will be like a millennium from now, when the average age will be nearer to one thousand. Will we all be renaissance children, skilled at every art and science, because we’ve had time to master them? Or will boredom and slavish routine plague us even more than it does today, giving us less of a reason to live limitless lives? I dream of the former, but I suspect the latter.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“Well, she could learn self control tomorrow. Today she wanted pizza.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“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

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“One of them says, 'Why did they do it?'
And the other answers, 'Because they could.'
That is the only answer there ever is.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

“Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not. Tap on it and it's hollow. Look under the shells: it's not there.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

“However complicated you think it is, everything is always more complicated than that.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

“There was no point talking to women at all; even meeting their eyes felt too dangerous.
When he walked past a group of women on the road - laughing and joking and making arcs against the sky - Tunde said to himself, I'm not here, I'm nothing, don't notice me, you can't see me, there's nothing here to see.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

“Nous sommes faits de l'étoffe dont sont tissés les vents.”
― Alain Damasio, La Horde du Contrevent

“La maturité de l'homme est d'avoir retrouvé le sérieux qu'on avait au jeu quand on était enfant.”
― Alain Damasio, La Horde du Contrevent

“D'une certaine façon, être vivant ne s'atteint que par ce triple combat : contre les forces de gravité en nous - la paresse, la fatigue, la quête du repos ; contre l'instinct de répétition - le déjà-fait, le connu, le sécurisant ; et enfin contre les séductions du continu - tous les développements durables, le réformisme ou ce goût très fréole de la variation plaisante, du pianotement des écarts autour d'une mélodie amusante”
― Alain Damasio, La Horde du Contrevent

“La folie n'est plus folle, dès qu'elle est collective.”
― Alain Damasio, La Horde du Contrevent

“- Tu sens quelque chose de bizarre toi ?
- Bizarre, peut-être pas. Je dirais plutôt cocasse ou simplement inattendu, voire impromptu, quoiqu'un tantinet insolite disons-le, dans la mesure du saugrenu, tout en étant singulièrement fantasque, presque excentrique si l'on y songe, et qui sait ? Extravagant en diable...
- Caracole !”
― Alain Damasio, La Horde du Contrevent