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I wonder if this is what bravery is: adrenaline plus love plus absolute stupidity.

— Katie Coyle Vivian Apple at the End of the World (2013)

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I’m starting to understand how little purchase the truth actually affords us in this world.

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Believer culture seems to shift so quickly, from benign to terrifying and back again.

Vivian Apple at the End of the World (2013)

“But it was probably nothing.”
“Nothing is nothing anymore, Viv.”

Vivian Apple at the End of the World (2013)

What Harp doesn’t understand is that I like my parents—current hiccups in sanity not withstanding.

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It’s funny now to think that we were ever confused by extreme action taken in the name of God.

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1599)

All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

Sanu Sharma

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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