“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

“It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.” - former President Harry Truman

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”

“The final portrait is often furthest from the truth.”

“I have no idea who these people are. But I can tell you one thing - these people are richer than God.”

“I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change” - President Paul Kagame

LITTLE INDIAN BOY GOES ON WEIRD BOAT RIDE WITH MEAN CAT

“What wisdom would you impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance? If you were gone tomorrow, what would you want to be your legacy?”

“Scientists talk about how we inherit health issues from our parents through our genes, but we also inherit this entire lineage of fear and pain—generations of it.”

“I know the average outfit in your wardrobe costs more than a semester of tuition at Princeton, but it makes you look like a community college during summertime: NO CLASS.”

“Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.”

“I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”

An annoying, headache-inducing story that is actually alright

“I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.”

angsty kid always on the verge of an emotional breakdown

"How much money did you get from the Clutters?"

"Between forty and fifty dollars."

DUDE GETS FRIENDZONED IN SPAIN

a story that stirs the conscience of history