“She wished him to owe his recovery to her alone—to her care, to her tireless devotion. That is the other side of selflessness: its tyranny.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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“That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They...”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I’m going to keep going until I succeed — or I die. Don’t think I don’t know how this might end. I’ve known it for years.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“I ain't such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

“Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.”

― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

“For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other...”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the success of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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