This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.
―Speaker for the Dead

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one’s life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.
―Speaker for the Dead

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.
―Speaker for the Dead

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
―Ender’s Game

“I also remembered that you were beautiful.”
“Memory does play tricks on us.”
“No.…

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Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.
―Mistborn: The Final Empire

You should try not to talk so much, friend. You’ll sound far less stupid that way.
-Mistborn: The Final Empire

It’s easy to believe in something when you win all the time…The losses are what define a man’s faith.
―The Well of Ascension

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN’T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.
―Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.…

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“We are not going to die.” Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified.
“We’re not?”
“No. And do you know why?” He shook his head. “Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I’m too stubborn to die.” I hauled on the shirt even harder. “And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.”
―Dead Beat

There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.
―White Night

You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If this works I’ll buy you a pony.
―Summer Knight

Most of the bad guys in the real world don’t know that they are bad guys.…

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When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, “Why god? Why me?” and the thundering voice of God answered, There’s just something about you that pisses me off.
―Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
―Stephen King

The scariest moment is always just before you start.
―On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.…

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The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.
―Sharp Objects

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial – you’d think all women do is clean and bleed.
―Gone Girl

There’s a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.
―Gone Girl

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.
―Gone Girl

It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.
―Gone Girl

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.
―Gone Girl

I was not a lovable child, and I’d grown into a deeply unlovable adult.…

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