“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time”

― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

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“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”

― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Please observe, gentlemen, how facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.”

― Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

“Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“All is full, existence everywhere, dense, heavy and sweet. But, beyond all this sweetness, inaccessible, near and so far, young, merciless and serene, there is this . . . this rigour.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of...”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe; and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell.”

― Voltaire, Candide

“There's some truth in most stereotypes. A seed they sprouted from.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“That’s the trouble with you young people . . . You think because you ain’t been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forget more than you ever know. ”

― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult—at least I found it so—than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

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