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“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture?
But I was doomed to live;”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Loving someone always requires you to not love others.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
― Herbert Hoover

“Sometimes you need to lie make the world go around”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Don't be sad. Even if the world won't forgive you, I'll forgive you.
Don't be sad. Even if you don't forgive the world, I'll forgive you.
So please tell me. How do I make you forgive me?”
― Ryukishi07

“...a story should be like a roller coaster. That is to say before writing a really cruel scene, I have to lift the people's spirits, for example, with a fun scene... Before writing a scene of pure despair, we must go through scenes of hope. And indeed, when I write, all of this amuses me very much.”
― Ryukishi07

“I don't know what I want but I know that I want it now.”
― Dylan Moran

“I can’t get involved in all the murders you need to commit to get this shit out of your system.”
― Dylan Moran

“Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
― Aristotle

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
― Buddha

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
― Mark Twain

“Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
― Confucius

“The best revenge is living well without you. ”
― Joyce Carol Oates, ed.

“Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.”
― Greg Evans

“Anger is really disappointed hope.”
― Erica Jong

“Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays