💬 Quotes
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"The darkness of the human heart is bottomless. When you are pushed to the limit, you will see it for yourself."
— Battle Royaleby Kōshun Takami
"Don't ever give up. Even if it's only for one more second, try to live. That's the only way you can ever win."
— Battle Royaleby Kōshun Takami
"If you look at this through the eyes of the government, this is a necessary sacrifice for the stability of the nation."
— Battle Royaleby Kōshun Takami
"We were friends yesterday, but today we are enemies. This is the reality they forced upon us."
— Battle Royaleby Kōshun Takami
"A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager."
— Around the world in eighty daysby Jules Verne
"I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new."
— Around the world in eighty daysby Jules Verne
"What is the use of being an Englishman, if you don't know how to be proud of your country?"
— Around the world in eighty daysby Jules Verne
"Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour of the world in eighty days?"
— Around the world in eighty daysby Jules Verne
"In this world, it is necessary to live one's life as if it were a matter of time, for time is the only thing we truly possess."
— Around the world in eighty daysby Jules Verne
"Je n'ai pas l'intention de vous rendre visite, Clarice. Le monde est tellement plus intéressant avec vous dedans."
— Le silence des agneauxby Thomas Harris
"People who claim that they’re evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It’s people who claim that they’re good, or anyacles of God, or agents of righteousness who I think are the dangerous ones."
— Wickedby Gregory Maguire
"Animals have these brainy privileges—speech, literacy, the right to vote, the right to own property—and yet they are treated as second-class citizens by the very species that granted them those rights."
— Wickedby Gregory Maguire
"No one mourns the wicked. May their endings be as unlooked for as their beginnings and their lives as bitter as gall."
— Wickedby Gregory Maguire
"How can you tell the difference between the truth and the lie? The truth is what you believe to be true. The lie is what you believe to be false."
— Wickedby Gregory Maguire
"People deserve the chance to fly, but they have to be willing to give up the ground to do it."
— Wickedby Gregory Maguire
"You aren't a person, you're a creature of circumstance. You are the product of your upbringing, your tragedies, and your choices."
— Wickedby Gregory Maguire
"I’m not a gambler. I’m a businessman. I don’t believe in luck, and I certainly don’t believe in fair play."
— Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows)by Leigh Bardugo