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But hardly anybody ever finds out that their actions really, actually, hurt other people! People don’t get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don’t stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

Carrie - Stephen King

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As too much power leads to despotism, too little leads to anarchy, and both eventually to the ruin of the people.

Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow

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“The room seemed to slip from its moorings and I was lost in the sway of the resonance. The kid was a genius on the guitar, and there were certain moments, certain alignments of the sound between us that made me shiver. I played all night, long after everyone had left except Dave, a trucker named Norm who played the drums, and a guy named Larry who had a suitcase full of harmonicas.”

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“What is that light? A lamp? The moon? Our bookish feast can’t end so soon. It feels as though we’ve just begun, but now we leave our books half done.” 

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“I think Tat and Trey are as close to monogamy as I’ve ever been. It’s working out for me so far.” 

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“He’s the worst. He’s a podiatrist, for God’s sake! I suppose it’s my fault for naming him Stanley. Not that I had any say in it. My mother-in-law insisted we name him after her dead husband. Good Lord, she was a crone.”

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“can i ever be truly hapy if i am alone in my hapiness”

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“I’m fresh out of sober soliloquies. 

No more metaphors, no more similes.”

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“This is a table surrounded by ghosts, covered in the fingerprints of the two people I have loved most. The people that exited, stage left and stage right, before their time, before my time, all gone now, leaving me here alone with a table full of long-dead people’s exploited hopes. And a slightly resentful cat.”

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“Ever since Anna Robin had arrived, the young owl had seemed to decide overnight that he was a kind of feathery parent, and that the new chick in the nest, being already the size of a grown-up owl, needed enough meat to feed a small army. It was too bad he didn’t seem to understand the idea of milk, or I wouldn’t have put it past him to try to fly a dairy cow out to us.”

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“Good morning, he said. 

Be at home in your head.

Make sure joy is well fed.

Don’t let dread hog the bed.”

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“The only sounds were the rhythmic creak of the wood and the slow patter of the cider as it ran into the bucket below. There was a rhythm to it, but no music, and the innkeeper’s eyes were distant and joyless, so pale a green they almost could have passed for grey.”

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“No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No falling snow was more intent upon its purpose.”

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“However much and for however long it kills me, I’ll never silently, secretly hold up signs to tell Jack O’Mara, without hope or agenda, that to me he is perfect, and that my wasted heart will always love him.”

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“Another soldier showed up, escorting four more recruits. Two of the men were twin brothers, six-foot-six-inch blond giants. Valentine was surprised to learn their names were Kyle and Pete rather than Thor and Odin.”

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“i never wanted to hide. hiding is what people do when they are afraid or ashamed. i was neither.”

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“This, this is why I don’t ever tell the truth. Because people say true things back and it feels like dying.”