Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people would survive and had wanted them to remember her city and the treasure it held, the treasure that was most valuable of all - herself, her family, and all of the generations of people who had lived in that secret place, their purpose, though they didn't know it, to make sure that human beings did not vanish from the world, no matter what happened above.

Jeanne DuPrau

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As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.

Roberto Bolaño

Tags: life time struggle survival



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Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.

Dave Pelzer

Tags: adversity survival



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I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.

Robert Fanney

Tags: life death survival monsters elves luthiel mithorden zalos



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We’ll never survive!”
“Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.

William Goldman

Tags: humor optimism doubt survival



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One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion.

Michael Grant

Tags: first-sentence fantasy survival teens gone-series



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When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness,
there are three things that can show you the way:
instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation,
creative imagination. Without them, you are lost.

Toba Beta

Tags: imagination knowledge darkness survival navigation spirit creative survive way



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Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.

Toba Beta

Tags: life truth war victory winning law survival rule competition win preservation preserve winner



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Loving someone always requires you to not love others.

Koushun Takami

Tags: love survival



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What could I offer the local bad boy except my livelihood? Oh, I know. My body or my planes! Why didn't I think of that? Would you have preferred that I offer him my body, Nic, because I sure as hell wasn't going to sign over either of my planes!

Sharon K. Garner

Tags: romance survival contemporary brazil romantic-adventure archaeological-theft rain-forest women-pilots



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