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“Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.”
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“Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.”
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“I stared at her closely, studying her face, her eyes, everything. This was the angel that tamed a demon; the soul that trapped him and held him with a power he'd never felt before. Love.”
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“If I'm going to spend the whole night waiting for you guys to stop flirting and shoot each other, I want to at least be entertained.”
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“It's not enough, is it? Just to follow; just to have faith in someone bigger and smarter and better informed. That's how we're built, that's how every Partial is wired - to follow orders and trust in our leaders - but it's not enough. It never has been. We've followed our leaders, and sometimes they win and sometimes they lose; we do what they say and we play our part. But this is our decision. Our mission. And when we're done, it will be our victory, or our defeat. I don't want to fail, but if I do, I want to be able to look back and say, 'I did that. I failed. That was all me.”
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“It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create. It's like...time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.”
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“You make your own choices, Kira, and you can’t let anyone ever take that away from you.”
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“Freedom is a responsibility to be earned, not a license for recklessness and anarchy. If someday, despite our strongest efforts and our deepest determination, we finally fall, let it be because our enemies finally beat us, not because we beat ourselves.”
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“It's not John who wants to cut his mother into tiny pieces, it's Mr. Monster. See? I feel better already.”
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“Here was something that I did all the time, and thought nothing of it, and it turns out the rest of the world thinks it's completely reprehensible. That's when I knew I needed to change, so I started making rules. The first one was; Don't mess with animals.”
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“I'm going to cure RM." Marcus laughed. "I wondered when someone would finally get around to that. It's been on my to-do list for ages, but you know how things are: Life gets so busy, and saving the human race is such an inconvenience.”
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“The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.”
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“I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.”
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“This book is dedicated to the rule breakers, the troublemakers, and the revolutionaries. Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite.”
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“The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.”
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“I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just...going to be a whole lot worse for awhile first. And I think I knew that, and I was scared of it." - Marcus”
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“Jayden laughed grimly. 'Press the attack and hope for the best.' 'Hope is not a strategy,' said Kira 'It's not plan A,' said Jayden, 'and it shouldn't be plan B, but it is every plan C that has ever been made.”
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“I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end...”
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“If other things must be destroyed in order for fire to exist, that's all right with fire. As far as fire is concerned, that's what those things are there for in the first place” Excerpt From: Wells, Dan. “I Am Not a Serial Killer.” Macmillan, 2010-03-30T07:00:00+00:00. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.”
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“It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.”
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“If you have the strength to whine, you have the strength to do something about it.”
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“Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.”
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“This is life...Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live on while the weak--the ones too small or too foolish to fight back--die in agony and blood.”
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“If you want to survive in this world, you need to stop asking why people work together, and just start working together.”
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“Manhattan was a no-man's land, empty, an unofficial demilitarized zone between Partials and the human survivors. No one was supposed to be here, not because it was forbidden but because it was dangerous. If something happened to you out here, either side could get you, and neither side could protect you.”
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“If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.”
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“Embrace your complexity, stretch your creativity, and live up to your potential, you are what makes the world great.”
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“Love is when you have the opportunity of turning someone's feelings or trust or vulnerability against them, but you don't. You make promises you don't want to keep, but you keep them because they're right; you help people who can't help you back. [...] Love is when you find something so great, sonecessary, that it becomes more important to you than your own goals, than your own life - not because your life has no meaning without it, but because it gives your life a meaning it never had before.”
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