💬 Quotes

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"The truth is, most people are so busy living that they never stop to consider if they are actually prepared to die."
— Left Behindby Tim F. LaHaye
"He didn't look like a savior, but then again, neither did the Antichrist."
— Left Behindby Tim F. LaHaye
"You can't explain away the inexplicable. The world has changed forever, and we are the ones left to make sense of the debris."
— Left Behindby Tim F. LaHaye
"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money."
— Night Watchby Terry Pratchett
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
— Night Watchby Terry Pratchett
"People who are dead are not dead; they’re just living in my head."
— Night Watchby Terry Pratchett
"People are more easily seduced by the prospect of pleasure than by the reality of it."
— The Art Of Seductionby Robert Greene
"If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they talk. They want you to know *all* about it. They want the satisfaction of the kill. And that's when you can get him."
— Night Watchby Terry Pratchett
"Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably Priced Love! And a Hard-Boiled Egg!"
— Night Watchby Terry Pratchett
"There are times when you have to do what's right, even if it breaks all the rules."
— Night Watchby Terry Pratchett
"Every secret needs a keeper. Every sin needs a witness."
— Corruptby Penelope Douglas
"You can’t run from your past when your past is the one holding the leash."
— Corruptby Penelope Douglas
"I’m not a bad person, Erika. I’m just a person who knows exactly what he wants, and I’m willing to burn everything down to get it."
— Corruptby Penelope Douglas
"They say the truth will set you free, but in this town, the truth is just another weapon."
— Corruptby Penelope Douglas
"You were always the sun, Michael. You just didn’t realize that the sun burns everything it gets too close to."
— Corruptby Penelope Douglas
"People don't change. They just get better at hiding the ugly parts of themselves."
— Corruptby Penelope Douglas
"If you ain't scared, you ain't human."
— The Death Cureby James Dashner
"Tell me, Thomas. If you could go back to the beginning, knowing everything you know now, would you still choose to save the world?"
— The Death Cureby James Dashner
"WICKED is good. It’s the only thing that’s ever been good. Because we’re trying to save you."
— The Death Cureby James Dashner
"I’d rather die than be one of them. I’d rather die than be a puppet in their sick, twisted game."
— The Death Cureby James Dashner