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Quote by James M. Cain

“If you have to do it, you can do it.”

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James M. Cain was an American author known for his crime novels and noir fiction. His works, often featuring hard-boiled detectives, had a profound impact on 20th-century American literature. more

“I know. So, I was angry with you. I didn't know why. I was angry with the world. I did know why. I hated all my therapists for being useless. I was this little ball of self-destructive fury, and none of them could do anything but tell me that I was a little ball of self-destructive fury. [...] I knew I was angry. Tell me what to do with that anger, please.”

Knows World Littles Self Please Balls Angry Useless Hated Destructive Fury Therapists Self Destructive

Author:Gayle Forman

“The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.”

Trying Love You Crush True Nature Simon Lewis Luke Garroway

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.”

Humans Done Moon Missions Favors Destination

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“But I'd do it again. I know that now. I'd make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand times over to have heard her play last night or to see her in the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just to know that she's somewhere out there. Alive.”

Knows Play Lasts Night Loses Morning Alive Heard Promise Thousand Sunlight Last Night Where She Went Somewhere Out There

Author:Gayle Forman

“It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.”

Trying Looks Book Sometimes Stories Used Water Forget Talking Crazy Cry Window Tales Fairy Fairy Tale

Author:Holly Black

“Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.”

Feels Hurt My Own Skins It Hurts Peeling Sharing Secrets

Book:White Cat