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“There are things that, when they break, they keep on functioning, just in some other, lesser way. Like an elevator: it breaks, and it's a room. An escalator: it breaks, and it's stairs The heart is the same. It breaks, and you might not even notice, because you still feel things, you still have emotions.”

Broken Heartbreak Function

Book:There Will Be Lies

Source: There Will Be Lies

“Systems do what they're designed to do, It's people who are more complicated”

People Space Complicated System

Book:Satellite

Source: Satellite

“It's a cartoon but it's got like the whole meaning of life in it. (road runner) I mean, what doe it tell you? It tells you that your body can be broken but it will mend. It tells you that if you do bad things they will rebound on you. It tells you that death is the end. It tells you that you can walk on air, as long as you don't realize you're doing it.”

People Life Death Air Television Meaning Learn Cartoon Tv Watch

Book:Satellite

Source: Satellite

“I know for an absolute honest-to-goodness fact that life can kick you to pieces, break you into a thousand little shards, and that you can get up again and mend yourself. I promise.”

Inspirational Attitude

Book:Hostage Three

Source: Hostage Three

“i wonder what it's like. it's impossible to imagine. when u have only known the absence of a thing, how do u construct its feeling in ur mind?”

Wisdom Thoughts Science Fiction

Book:Satellite

Source: Satellite

“...she took away my yesterdays. But that's OK. Because now I am a person made of tomorrows.”

Hope Hurt Tomorrow Fresh Start New Start

Book:There Will Be Lies

Source: There Will Be Lies

“When you keep hurting someone, you do one of three things. Either you fill them up with hate, and they destroy everything around them. Or you fill them up with sadness, and they destroy themselves. Or you fill them up with justice, and they try to destroy everything that's bad and cruel in this world. Me, I was the first kind of person.”

Hate Destruction

Book:In Darkness

Source: In Darkness