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“We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside”

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Richard Paul Evans is an American author known for his novels, particularly his stories about family and emotions. His works often explore themes of family, love, and sacrifice, and are highly appreciated by readers. more

“We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances.”

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Book:The Sunflower

Source: The Sunflower

“Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage”

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Book:The Sunflower

Source: The Sunflower

“It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.”

People Thinking Holden True People

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away.”

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Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. "That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there." "Which one is me?" I asked. "The little deformed one," Zoe suggested. "Oh, shut up.”

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Book:The Titan's curse

Source: The Titan's curse

“I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.”

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Author:J. D. Salinger

“If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did.”

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Author:J. D. Salinger

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