“I think that's what we all want, in the end.
To know that we left footprints when we passed by, however briefly.
We want to be remembered.
So remember us.
Please.
Remember us.”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“Not everyone has to fly high to prove they exist; some of us are perfectly happy flying low and enjoying the view.”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“Adults are just making things up as they go along. And when they’re scared, adults have no more answers than us kids”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“Without the friendship we'd never have discovered the reason we were friends.”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“In extraordinary times, the ordinary takes on a glow and wonder all of its own”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“It was a story by Edgar Allan Poe"
"I didn't know the Teletubbies had first names ...”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“You don’t get involved, you don’t get let down”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“How was it even possible to know if your brain was malfunctioning, because the very thing you need to think it all through is the very thing that might be playing up in the first place”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“Not if you like lies so much you want to live one”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“We simply don’t have enough data to form a conclusion”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“Esta es mi familia.
Te vuelve absolutamente loco.
Pero los extrañas cuando ya no están aquí.”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“You kids are handling this a whole lot better than he is.’
I wondered if that meant we were pretty darned tough.
Or whether we simply lacked the imagination to see how bad things really were”
― Mike A. Lancaster, quote from Human.4
“Every plan is a house of cards.”
― Holly Black, quote from The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“It was with a shock that he felt the touch of Laurent's fingers against the back of his wrist. [...] Laurent was shifting the fabric of his sleeve, sliding it back slightly to reveal the gold underneath, until the wrist cuff he had asked the blacksmith to leave on was exposed between them.
'Sentiment?' said Laurent.
'Something like that.'
Their eyes met and he could feel each beat of his heart. A few seconds of silence, a space that lengthened, until Laurent spoke.
'You should give me the other.”
― C.S. Pacat, quote from Captive Prince: Volume Two
“It's sad when everyone knows you, but no one knows you.”
― Ava Dellaira, quote from Love Letters to the Dead
“How could this have happened when everything was normal?”
― Joan Didion, quote from The Year of Magical Thinking
“Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself”
― Benjamin Franklin, quote from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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