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Quote by Rudyard Kipling

“The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.”

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Rudyard Kipling was a British poet, short-story writer, and novelist, known for his works reflecting British imperialism and his experiences in India. His most famous works include 'The Jungle Book' and 'Kim'. more

“Dauntless,' he says. 'I was born for Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But then I met her, and...I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision.' Her. For a moment, it's like I'm looking at a different person, sitting in Tobias's skin, one whose life is not as simple as I thought. He wanted to leave Dauntless, but he stayed because of me. He never told me that.”

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Author:Veronica Roth

“Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time.”

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Book:Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)

Source: Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)

“... the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone.”

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Book:Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)

Source: Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)

“It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.”

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Book:The Name of the Star

Source: The Name of the Star

“Even that. What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?”

Ifs Forever

Author:Michael Scott

“I was just thinking – today is the first and last day of forever. It’s kind of hard to wrap my head around it. Even with all this extra room for wrapping.”

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Author:Stephenie Meyer

“In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.”

Lost Graves Slumber Delirium

Book:The Essential Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Source: The Essential Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

“You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go… well, anywhere at all.”

Wells Steps Path Fronts Fantastic Sidewalk

Book:It: A Novel

Source: It: A Novel

“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”

Want Moments Running Delightful Bittersweet Suspended Eros

Book:Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

Source: Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

Quote by Rudyard Kipling

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