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“Good people sometimes do bad things. Sometimes they're by accident, sometimes by design. It doesn't make you any less good. It just makes you human.”
― S.A. Ferkey, The Legend Begins

“Just enough to make up for all the fucking taxes the government took out of my regular paycheck. “Free” counseling. “Free” healthcare. “Free” employment services. “Free” food. There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Keep that in mind. Somewhere, somehow, somebody is paying. For everything.”
― Ken Wheaton, Bacon and Egg Man: A Novel

“I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“I spent a few minutes fully engrossed in the textbook, having forgotten where I was and why I was there, the highest compliment one can pay a book, I suppose.”
― Neve Maslakovic, Regarding Ducks and Universes

“With one Like I can say hi to a friend, support them during a crisis, share in a joke, make someone happy, or reinforce a person’s self esteem.  I make myself part of their world.  It’s like I stopped by for coffee.  But, by Liking, I can also avoid talking to all the people I don’t want to waste time on.  Or I can check to see what my ex-girlfriend is doing seven or eight times an hour.  It’s a double-edged mouse click.”
― Bart Hopkins, Like

“That’s what it’s like being poor—choices are something you sit around and dream about having, some day after you strike it rich.”
― David Wong, Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits

“I used to believe there was a part of the human brain we couldn’t quite excise, and its sole purpose was to encourage self-destruction. Someday, I thought, the guys working on the BRAIN Initiative would push aside a contour in the gray matter and find a pulsing, jet-black spot. They’d insert a probe into the patient’s head to press the nodule and the patient’s immediate response would be to shout out, “FUCK IT! WHY NOT?”
― Jeremy Robert Johnson, Skullcrack City