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"They were not creating a mess. They were just slowly illuminating it."
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"You will be blessed the moment you realize you already are."

"Man has been bestowed with all the senses, Alas! What a drama, we are yet to know the art of using it!"

"It is good," he thought, "to get a taste of everything for oneself, which one needs to know. That lust for the world and riches do not belong to the good things, I have already learned as a child. I have known it for a long time, but I have experienced only now. And now I know it, don't just know it in my memory, but in my eyes, in my heart, in my stomach. Good for me, to know this!"

"Sometimes you have to succeed to see that there is nothing awesome in the thing which will be achieved!"

"Whoever has money would have realized that it doesn't bring happiness."

"Mental understanding cannot change our life, unless it becomes real understanding."

"It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid."

"Give it time. The weak in character always get tired of pretending. Their true colors will show."

"The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion."

"All she knew was that she must be in love with someone, or she wouldn't feel so miserable."
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"He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark.It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years."

"You have to take it off the table,' Jeremy said, finally. 'It's always going to be an option, otherwise. You're going to have to give it up and mean it, or it'll always be your solution when things go bad."

"Somewhere fate laughs in her far-off country, because now I am the human and it is Grace I will lose again and again, immer wieder, always the same, every winter, losing more of her each year, unless I find a cure."

"We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father."

"Piper's lust was like a single bear trap in the wilderness. It was nearly impossible to find if you were looking for it, but it was something you wanted to be prepared for if you stepped into it by accident."

"Because it wasn't merely that the trees were speaking to them. It was that the trees themselves were sentient beings, capable of watching their movements. Was it only the trees in this strange wood, or did every tree observe their movements? Had they always been trying to speak to them? There was no way of knowing, either, if the trees were good of bad, if they lived or hatred humans, if they had principles or compassion. They were like aliens, Gansey thought. Aliens that we have treated very badly for a very long time."

"He spiked the dirt, twisted out the deformed rose, tossed it aside. His palms sweated.'Sorry,' Persephone suggested.'Pardon?'She murmured, 'You should say sorry when you kill something.'It took him a moment to realize she meant the rose. 'It was dying anyway.''Dying and dead are different words.'Shamed, Adam muttered an apology...."

"They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without them."

"I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing."
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