“He wants to tell her that when things vanish they become something else, in death we rise again in the blades of grass, the splitting bodies of seeds.”
― The Shell Collector
― The Shell Collector
“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“I know that there will be solace for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“I saw more clearly the uselessness of all attempts to bring happiness to a mind from which only darkness came”
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“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.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
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