"There's a lot youdon't know, Sam. There's a lot I don't tell you. I know who I am. I know what I do, and what I am to this place.I know what I am to you, and how much you depend on me.You may be the symbol, and you may be the one everyone turns to when something goes bad, and you're the big badass, but I'm the guy doing the day-in, day-out work of running things. So I don't make this about me."

-- Michael Grant

#Running Quotes #Fear Quotes #Badass Quotes

“The live audience is a blind date. The camera is a hungry lover. One wants to be wined and dined and seduced and then decide where the evening will go. The other knows how it wants to be touched, wants it now and can damn well tell if you are lying about it. Both are fickle. Both feel good. Depends on your mood.”
“Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!”
“Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.”
“I will never be without information,' she determined. 'I will do better than my sisters. If a bird or any other beast comes out of that uncanny republic where husbands are grown, I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.' For this is how Marya Morevna surmised that love was shaped: an agreement, a treaty between two nations that one could either sign or not as they pleased.”
“He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely understand.”

Source : Hilary McKay (2003). “Saffy's Angel”, Margaret K. McElderry Books
“I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and attended many trials . . . from Hell's Angels, Black Panthers and Chicano street fighters to Roxanne Pulitzer and even Richard Nixon, back in the good old days before he was run out of the White House for fraud, perjury, graft, and criminal negligence.”
“â€ŽMay the Heart of Jesus be the goal of all your aspirations.”
“And what if there’s nothing in there?’ You die and there’s nothing beyond that. Nothing. Nothing remains. Someone might remember you for a little while after but not for long.”

Source : Dmitry Glukhovsky (2014). “METRO 2033: The cult bestseller behind the METRO LAST LIGHT and METRO 2033 video games”, p.165, Dmitry Glukhovskiy

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