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“Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

“To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that’s not how a person with integrity acts.”
― Patrick Ness, Chaos Walking: The Complete Trilogy

“What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

“Every guy can basically be boiled down to what he wants and what he’s afraid of.”
― Christopher Moore, Noir

“Maturity is not something that happens all at once. It is not a border between two countries where once you cross the invisible line, you are on the new soil of adulthood, speaking the foreign tongue of grown-ups. It is more like a distant broadcast, and you are driving toward it, and sometimes you can barely make it out through the hiss of static while other times the reception momentarily clears and you can pick up the signal with perfect clarity.”
― Joe Hill, Strange Weather

“Was anything in all the world more heartrending than being found out by someone you wanted to love you?”
― Joe Hill, Strange Weather

“If you go chasing your freedom your fate will only follow you there, and force you back.”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“Start by holding your head high,” Hatcher said. “You’re only a mouse if you let them make you one.”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“It made Alice realize how much of life was full of empty stuff, objects longed for because the hope of them made your small life seem bigger, better, brighter.”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“There was comfort in ignorance, in thinking the world a certain way and not knowing any different.”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“Life is not much like stories,”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“The world gobbles us and chews us and swallows us,” Hatcher said, in that uncanny way he had of reading her thoughts. “I think happy endings must be accidents.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“Sometimes the lure of thought and memory was too much for her, a tug that compelled her away from the world and into her own head.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“There were monsters in the night but there were monsters in the day too, and monsters inside people who smiled and showed you all their teeth like they were nice.”
― Christina Henry, Red Queen

“In the end words are just wind.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Well, as to that, some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied.” He shrugged. “In the end words are just wind.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones: The Story Continues: The Complete 5 Books

“Hanna kept her words to herself because they gave her power. Inside her, they retained their purity. She scrutinized Mommy and other adults, studied them. Their words fell like dead bugs from their mouths. A rare person, like Daddy, spoke in butterflies, whispering colors that made her gasp. Inside, she was a kaleidoscope of racing, popping, bursting exclamations, full of wonder and question marks.”
― Zoje Stage, Baby Teeth

“You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“The thing I’m hung up on is the idea of seeing something real. I don’t think most people feel half the things they pretend to feel.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“The powerful hold nothing but contempt for those who toady to them, all but the toadies know this.”
― Christopher Moore, Shakespeare for Squirrels

“Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.”
― Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping

“Never underestimate the number of people who would love to see you fail.”
― Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping