when you lie

When you lie, 

it makes you feel in charge of your life. (...)

When you lie, you feel 

as if you have cheated fate - your own, 

and everybody else's.

John Irving

'The Cider House Rules'

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what love is

Was that what love was, 

and 

how it came to you - leaving you no options 

for its use?

John Irving

'The Cider House Rules'

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real adventure

You know, everybody dies.

My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies.

I'm going to die too. So will you.

The thing is, to have a life before we die.

It can be a real adventure 

having a life.

John Irving

'The World According to Garp'

www.wallsave.com

to know & to lose

We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another.

Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly --

as if out of the sky, 

or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth --

the same sudden way we lose people,

who once seemed they would always be 

part of our lives.

John Irving

'Last Night in Twisted River'

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time

Time takes it all,

whether you want it to or not.

Stephen King

'The Green Mile'

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retardation

There's layers of retardation
that most people don't even know about.

Generation Kill
episode 1
(Cpl Josh Ray Person)

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life & hope

Nothing is ineluctable. 

Life has surprises. 

Life is absurd. 

Because it's absurd there is always hope.

Graham Greene

'The Honorary Consul'

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the universe

There were perhaps 

one hundred billion galaxies in the universe, 

and each galaxy contained a hundred billion stars. 

How many of those stars had planets, 

and how many planets had life?

(...)

The belief 

that there was life only on this pale blue dot, 

in this insignificant solar system, now seemed 

as absurd as the ancients' naive belief that 

the sun and the stars revolved around the earth.

Tess Gerritsen

'Gravity'

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universal question

What sets the human race apart from the beasts is 

man's hunger for knowledge. 

Every child asks the universal question: 

Why? 

They are programmed from birth to be curious, 

to be explorers, 

to seek scientific truths.

Tess Gerritsen

'Gravity'

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being quiet

Sometimes people lie

just by being quiet.

Stephen King

'The Dark Half'

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