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“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

“Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

“It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“A autoridade policial, como seria de se esperar, apresentou números sóbrios e precisos, na tentativa de reduzir uma autêntica rebelião social à caricatura de uma baderna urbana: fútil, atabalhoada, inconsequente. [...] A matança coletiva dirige-se, via de regra, contra um objeto unificado por algum padrão abstrato que retira a humanidade das vítimas: uma seita, uma comunidade peculiar, uma facção política, uma cultura, uma etnia. Personificando nesse grupo assim circunscrito todo o mal e toda a ameaça à ordem das coisas, os executores se representam a si mesmos como herois redentores, cuja energia implacável esconjura a ameaça que pesa sobre o mundo”
― Nicolau Sevcenko, A Revolta da Vacina