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“Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.”

Book:We Need To Talk About Kevin

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We Need To Talk About Kevin

The story delves into the complex relationship between a mother and her son, focusing on the aftermath of a tragic event and the mother's introspection on her role in her child's life. more

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Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver is a British journalist born on May 18, 1957. She is known for her unique writing style and profound insights into social issues. more

“For Adam, screwed-up bonding thing or not, I’d wait forever. “Really?” he asked in a tone I’d never heard from him before. Softer. Vulnerable. Adam didn’t do vulnerable. “Really what?” I asked. “Despite the way our bond scares you, despite the way someone in the pack played you, you’d still have me?” He'd been listening to my thoughts. This time it didn't bother me. “Adam,” I told him, “I’d walk barefoot over hot coals for you.”

Way Stills Waiting Walks Forever Heard Listening Hot Despite Vulnerable Bother Tone Scare Adam Packs Coal My Thoughts Bonding Screwed Up Barefoot

Book:Silver Borne

Source: Silver Borne

“Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.”

World Way Perfect Machines Fascists

Author:John Green

“My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.”

World Heart Has Beens Age My Heart Moved Extraordinary Casts Destroyed

Book:The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001

Source: The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001

“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”

Persons Universe Secret Source Treasure Triumph Anguish Abstraction

Author:Elie Wiesel

“That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.”

Want Said Home Waiting Hurt Coming Home Always Waiting

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Aim higher in case you fall short.”

Inspirational Fall Cases Higher Aim Setting Goals Catching Catching Fire Catching On

Book:The Hunger Games Trilogy

Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy

“You could do a lot worse.”

Book:Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

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