“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.”
— Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker (via the-book-diaries)
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“Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road. Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go.”
— Green Day, Good Riddance (via music-and-quotes)
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“Today, the average high school student has the same anxiety levels as the average 1950s psychiatric patient.”
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“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon the world.”
— Albert Camus (via philosophyquotes)
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Septic Tank Sam was the moniker given to an unidentified victim that was found inside a septic tank at an abandoned farmhouse in 1977. His body was left to decompose for months before investigators found him. When the owners of the abandoned farmhouse went to search for a pump in the septic tank, they found his body instead.
According to the autopsy, this was one of the most brutal murders to take place in Alberta, Canada at the time. Sam had been tied up and repeatedly beaten while simultaneously burned with a blowtorch over and over again. On top of that, he was sexually mangled. After his killer(s) felt that he had been adequately tortured, he was shot in the head and chest to finish the job.
The killer(s) then put limestone in the tank with Sam in the hopes that it would speed up the rate of his decomposition, however, it did little other than leave superficial burns due to the fact that the limestone couldn’t handle that amount of flesh.
After being exhumed in 1979, criminal reconstructionists used DNA and his bone structure in order to recreate how he might have looked before death. To this day, the case is unsolved and Septic Tank Sam is still unidentified.
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“You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.”
— Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle (via books-n-quotes)
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“People. People. Endless noise. And I am so tired. And I would like to sleep under trees; red ones, blue ones, swirling passionate ones.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via the-book-diaries)
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“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means…”
— Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose (via books-n-quotes)
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“Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.”
— A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh (via the-book-diaries)
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“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it’s just teeth.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters (via the-book-diaries)
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
— Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (via books-n-quotes)
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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (via the-book-diaries)
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“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (via books-n-quotes)
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why isn’t anyone allowed to be wrong anymore? it’s okay to be wrong. no one should be terrified of every tiny little mistake they might make. being wrong, and realizing you were wrong, is how you learn and grow and change.
“I don’t think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.”
— James Dashner, The Maze Runner (via the-book-diaries)
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“What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Damned
“In the future… if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again… fall in love with me…You’re still my favorite person… Always will be”
— Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us (via the-book-diaries)
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