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“In my experience,’ he told me, ‘if you run away from a thing just because you don’t like it you don’t know what you find either. Now running to a thing, that’s a different matter, but what would you want to run to?”
― John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

“A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“He loved me. I do not doubt that. In hindsight, I do not believe that I loved him. I simply felt his love for me, burning and all-consuming, and reflected it back, as the cold light of the moon reflects the light of the sun. I did not know that at the time. I thought I loved him.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake

“and after all in this house what have we to fear? There is always someone with us who is stronger. The devil may visit us, but God lives here.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables