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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Leo Tolstoy |
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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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dystopia
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George Orwell |
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Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
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Daphne Du Maurier |
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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insects
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Franz Kafka |
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If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face
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inspirational
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Alice Hoffman |
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No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
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H.G. Wells |
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Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
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suicide
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Lynda Barry |
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Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside.
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dark
broken
depressing
relatable
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sad
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Sarah J. Maas |
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"When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing."
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family
freaks
chicken
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Katherine Dunn |
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Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.
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Rick Riordan |
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They murdered him.
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robert-cormier
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opening-lines
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Robert Cormier |
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I should probably start with the blood.
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Robin Wasserman |
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There was a ticking time bomb inside my head and the one person I trusted to go in and get it out hadn't shown up or spoken to me for more than a year.
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harry-dresden
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Jim Butcher |
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I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn
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Paul Auster |