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You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.
Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
Imagine it. How would it be if the end was not Heaven or Hell but just an absence of life? My God, I swear that would be Heaven enough for most of us.
In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
Perhaps we don't fully recover from our first loves. Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, in the mistaken assumption that we'll always have more to give.
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
I also like a lot of other quotes. These are just some of the more recent ones that I have found. I am in one of those sit-in-your-room-feel-sorry-for-yourself-think-about-death kind of moods. Oh and I think I have a tumor.