Top 24 Nick Lake Quotes
#1. Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.
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#2. I know for an absolute honest-to-goodness fact that life can kick you to pieces, break you into a thousand little shards, and that you can get up again and mend yourself. I promise.
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#3. In darkness, I count my blessings like Manman taught me.
One: I am alive.
Two: there is no two.
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#4. When guys in black Cadillacs drive you to some random building and lock you in what amounts to a cell, you know that shit just got real.
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#5. I have a tingly feeling that I get when there are books all around me. The library! I know it's geeky, but I love it. Just sitting between the shelves of books, reading - it's the safest feeling.
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#6. Behind the mountain is another mountain; behind the fire is another fire.
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#7. What is with people who don't read novels? I mean, what kind of life is that?
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#8. This is the thing: people think that magic doesn't exist, but it does, all the time. We use spells every day: the spell of forgiveness, the spell of thanks.
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#9. People think hermit crabs are cute, but I can't think of anything creepier. Some dead thing's shell, with legs poking out of it. Scuttling. Feeding on corpses. Living in a borrowed skin of death.
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#10. Every generation that goes into your genes is a generation of fighters, of survivors. And all those millions of lives are in you, in your blood.
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#11. One could call a master a good master because he did not whip his slaves, but ultimately he was still and owner of men, and men were not made to be owned.
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#12. But here's the thing:
The something new, it isn't necessarily bad. In fact, in some ways, maybe it's better.
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#13. Think of this as the most screwed-up love letter ever.
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#14. It's like she had a soul that was much too big for her; it filled her to the brim till there was no more space, so it flowed out through her eyes.
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#15. Hi, I said, IN SCINTILLATING DIALOGUE REMINISCENT OF THE CLASSIC MOVIE CASABLANCA.
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#16. Because things might be meant to happen.
Because an order might exits, under the chaos.
Because the universe might be playing a tune.
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#17. He held his head, and he cried for them, and he did not melt into the sea but sat, aching, in the glowing moonlight-for in the end our bodies know only how to carry on surviving.
That is our strength, and our tragedy.
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#18. No one is too old for fairy tales.
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#19. He owns them more completely than if he had seized their balls in his hands
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#20. It is easier to trick with charm than with aggression.
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#21. I'm here to tell you that if you get broken, it's possible to put yourself back together. I'm here to tell you that if you get lost, it's possible that a light will come, dancing, on the horizon, to lead you home.
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#22. She took away my yesterdays. But that's OK. Because now I am a person made of tomorrows.
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#23. I mean, she was just cool, you know? And she didn't even mean to be. She was just a hundred-watt lightbulb in a world of forty-watt bulbs. She shone.
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#24. You are descended from warriors. An endless parade of warriors. You have been alive for a billion years, an unbroken line of DNA. You will not be defeated by a ditch.
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