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Source: The Book of Koli

“I learned since then, and paid a price to learn, it that them as laid claim to great wisdom most often got nothing in their store but bare scrapings. And by the same token, them as think they're ignorant think it because they can see the edges of what they know, which you can only see when what you know is tall enough to stand on, and take a look around.”

Wisdom Experience

Book:The Book of Koli

Source: The Book of Koli

“It all comes together inside her, and she can’t begin to explain. “It’s just a pattern,” she says, feeling bad because it’s a lie. She’s lying to Miss Justineau, who she loves more than anyone in the world. And of course the other part of the feeling, that’s even harder to say, is that they’re each other’s home now. They have to be.”

Love Home

Book:The Girl with All the Gifts

Source: The Girl with All the Gifts

“Melanie understands jealousy. She’s jealous, a little bit, every time Miss Justineau talks to another boy or girl in class. She wants Miss Justineau’s time to belong to her, and the reminders that it doesn’t sting a little, make her heart do a gentle drop and thud in her chest.”

Love Jealousy

Book:The Girl with All the Gifts

Source: The Girl with All the Gifts

“Every kid is born a fascist,” Liz said. “You have to pound democracy into them a little at a time.”

Children Parenting Humor

Book:Someone Like Me

Source: Someone Like Me

“She faces him, trying to take a breath that's long and level, trying to pull all the slopping emotions back inside so he won't see them in her face.”

Emotions Hidden Emotion

Book:The Girl with All the Gifts

Source: The Girl with All the Gifts

“And one of the reasons why he likes her is because she’s so different from him. She’s as big as four-fifths of five-eighths of fuck all, but she takes no bullshit from anyone. She even talks back to the Sarge, which is like watching a mouse bark at a pitbull.”

Confidence

Book:The Girl with All the Gifts

Source: The Girl with All the Gifts

“Anything you can do, I can do better.”

Alter Ego

Book:Someone Like Me

Source: Someone Like Me

“He gave order that I should be held and chained to a stake like the bear I was. Well, I said, I make this promise to the man that tries it, that I'll hold no grudge against him but still I'll give his head to his best friend as a joint stool. And I walked out of gates, with none offering to stop me.”

Berserker

Book:Once Was Willem

Source: Once Was Willem

“In olden times, it meant the long dark of winter was finally over, and things would start growing again and the world would be renewed. The solstice was the promise–that the days wouldn’t just keep on getting shorter until they disappeared altogether. The equinox was the day when the promise was fulfilled.”

Equinox

Book:The Girl with All the Gifts

Source: The Girl with All the Gifts

“I had made so many mistakes since then, I couldn't even count them no more. If I could unpick my whole life like a pattern in wove cloth, I would do it in a heartbeat. But life's not forgiving either, and we only get one chance to weave what pattern we can.”

Life Regret Mistakes Koli

Book:The Fall of Koli

Source: The Fall of Koli

“Melanie thinks: when your dreams come true, your true has moved. You've already stopped being the person who had the dreams, so it feels more like a weird echo of something that already happened to you a long time ago.”

Dreams

Book:The Girl with All the Gifts

Source: The Girl with All the Gifts

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