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“The world should have been in Technicolour, but seemed more like black and white.”

Book:Half Brother

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Half Brother

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Kenneth Oppel

Kenneth Oppel is a renowned Canadian author known for his young adult literature. Born on August 31, 1967, he has been writing since the 1980s and has published numerous works, including science fiction, fantasy, and adventure novels. Oppel's books are appreciated for their rich imagination and profound themes. more

“Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into the design, somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.”

Evil Good Omens Humans Humanity

Author:Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

“You believe what you are and you are what you believe. This is a vicious or virtuous cycle in which we are all trapped. Our faiths and beliefs are like walls erected around us that provide us security but also act like a prison by blocking our view from the complete reality. We live in a make-believe world, oblivious to the reality that exists outside the four walls of our beliefs. The deep-rooted belief is called ‘faith’, which is responsible for many good things, but also for much of the evil in the world.”

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Book:Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“If good people won’t do the hard things, evil people will always win, because evil people will do anything.”

Evil Good Good And Evil Hard Choices

Book:Twilight Falling

Source: Twilight Falling

“On this planet . . . many things are 'the rule' which are thoroughly evil and pernicious.”