You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know. ― Patrick Ness

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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

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I had a dream about you. You were an escalator, and I was a flight of stairs. You thought I was a Luddite, and I thought I was as ostrich, because I hadn’t figured out how to put the fly in flight. One day you broke down, and then you saw that you and I weren’t so different after all. ― Dora J. Arod

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Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn’t life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. ― Anthony Doerr

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My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. ― Haruki Murakami

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Look, everyone talks about the unknown like it's some big scary thing, but it's the familiar that's always bothered me. It's heavy, builds up around you like rocks, until it's walls and a ceiling and a cell. ― V.E. Schwab

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The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go. ― Shannon L. Alder

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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

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In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.

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It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

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