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“Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]”

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Portuguese poet known for his unique narrative style and rich inner world. Fernando Pessoa is considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, and his works are still widely studied and discussed today. more

“The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your master. Reason must be in charge. It comforted you for the heart's foolishness, it sang mocking songs about love, derided it as a whim of nature, transient as flowers. So why did she still keep following her heart?”

Heart Stills Reason Song Mistake Flower Masters Weak Following Foolishness Bent Whim Transient Fatal Mistakes

Book:Inkdeath

Source: Inkdeath

“At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they misbehave. It is unseemly and betrays a sad lack of creativity.”

Facts Creativity Betray Towers Summit Sibling Snowy

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“Most of my friends are into strange things I don't really understand - and with a few shameful exceptions I wish them all well. Who am I, after all, to tell some friend he shouldn't change his name to Oliver High, get rid of his family, and join a Satanism cult in Seattle? Or to argue with another friend who wants to buy a single-shot Remington Fireball so he can go out and shoot cops from a safe distance?”

Want Wells Names Wish Strange Safe Shots My Friends Distance Arguing Exception Cop Cult Shameful Strange Things Seattle Satanism Remington

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.”

Earth Laughing Loneliness Cry Angel Delight Surface Floating Lone

Author:Markus Zusak

“A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.”

Knows Heart Left Existence Gone My Heart My Family Holes Bane Dysfunctional Family Gone Away Hole In My Heart

Book:The Bone People: A Novel

Source: The Bone People: A Novel

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.”

Ifs Dream Might Possibility Painful Deny

Book:Gregor the Overlander Collection:

Source: Gregor the Overlander Collection:

“jace's clothes had been clean,stylish,ordinary. Sebastian had been wearing a long black wool trench coat that had looked expensive. Like an evil Burbeery ad, Simon said when she was done.”

Long Said Done Evil Black Clothes Ordinary Clean Expensive Ads Coats Jace Trenches Stylish Wool Trench Coats

Author:Cassandra Clare

“He remembered Simon warning him, with wryness, that Clary had the nuclear bomb of boyfriends.”

Nuclear Remembered Bombs Warning Nuclear Bomb

Book:City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

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