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John Steinbeck
"Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other." -- Of Mice and Men
Herman Melville
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.” -- Moby-Dick, or The Whale
R.J. Palacio
“I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.” -- Wonder
Suzanne Collins
“Here's some advice. Stay alive.” -- The Hunger Games
Peter Heller
“Took the end of the world to make us kings for a day.” -- The Dog Stars
Kurt Vonnegut
"And so it goes..." -- Slaughterhouse-Five
Margaret Atwood
"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories." -- The Handmaid's Tale
George Orwell
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.” -- 1984
Graham Greene
“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” -- The End of the Affair