I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end...

Ishmael Beah

Tag: inspirational insightful revenge touching

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He realized that he agonized over everything all the time, and he admitted that part of the problem in the Carter game had been his own lack of belief in his abilities. He knew the reason why he was like this, that it was the price he paid for carefully watching out for himself ever since he had been a little boy. 'I've never taken a chance in life,' he said. 'I need to run in front of traffic bucknacked and get arrested.

H.G. Bissinger

Tag: insightful

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People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

Saul Bellow

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There ain't half been some clever bastards

Ian Dury

Tag: insightful humour lyrics idol-worship

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Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.

Jess C. Scott

Tag: life money truth insightful society technology self-discovery consumerism materialism humankind cyberpunk modernity urban-fantasy elven-charm

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Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.

Jess C. Scott

Tag: humor life truth friendship insightful love women beauty humanity society romance relationships human-nature self self-discovery reflection reflective meaning sense insight self-confidence young-adult humankind postmodern social-change life-and-death reflections modern-society modernism modernity self-love superficiality young-adult-literature thieves sensibility human-behavior superficial series thief-of-love thievery elven thief urban-fantasy young-adult-fiction young-adult-novels rogue thief-at-night elven-charm urban-fantasy-series ya-urban-fantasy young-adult-series

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Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).

Jess C. Scott

Tag: life truth friendship friends insightful love family humanity society meaning-of-life human-nature reflection reflective social-commentary meaning life-lessons insight humans young-adult humankind cyberpunk elves social-science young-adult-literature human-behavior elven social-issues urban-fantasy young-adult-fiction young-adult-novels inside-ourselves urban-fantasy-series ya-urban-fantasy young-adult-series nq-mobile-omar-khan omar-khan-nq-mobile

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What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

Leo Tolstoy

Tag: insightful birth-prevention

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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.

Vladimir Nabokov

Tag: humor insightful coincidence

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