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You couldn't live close to war and not have it grab you eventually.

You couldn’t live close to war and not have it grab you eventually.
– Paolo Bacigalupi

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  1. Her face was smeared with mud and blood and ash. Just another bit of debris in the wreckage of war. – Paolo Bacigalupi
  2. Maggot twitch, some people called it. If you’d seen much of the war, you had it. Some more. Some less. But everybody had it. – Paolo Bacigalupi
  3. The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders. – Paolo Bacigalupi
  4. Hell, we’re all bullet bait sooner or later. Doubt it makes much difference. You make it to sixteen, you’re a goddamn legend. – Paolo Bacigalupi
  5. I’m a chess piece. A pawn,’ she said. ‘I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game. – Paolo Bacigalupi
  6. But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out. – Paolo Bacigalupi
  7. Belief.- He snorted. -œI could kiss a thousand crosses. ????ing belief. – Paolo Bacigalupi
  8. Jesus walked on water, so maybe he makes aquifers, too. – Paolo Bacigalupi
  9. Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry. – Paolo Bacigalupi
  10. Suicide is not something I owe you or yours. – Paolo Bacigalupi
  11. A gamble. Everything was a damn gamble. Betting against luck and the Fates, again and again, and again. She kept walking, waiting for the bullet. – Paolo Bacigalupi
  12. Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way if justice. – Paolo Bacigalupi
  13. Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice. – Paolo Bacigalupi
  14. Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice. – Paolo Bacigalupi
  15. Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other. – Paolo Giordano
  16. Grab your pen! Grab your sword! Eviscerate small minds with pinpoint force of mental might. Victory is in horizon’s sight! – AH Scott
  17. War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace. – Philippa Gregory
  18. Close your eyes. Grab a hand. And jump! Your destiny is waiting for you at the bottom! – BM Hardin
  19. Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face. – F Sionil Jos
  20. Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn’t even any guilt. – Jodi Picoult
  21. War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war. – William Faulkner
  22. I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest. – Siegfried Sassoon
  23. The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  24. We are at war. War has a way of stripping us of perspective. War is about life and death, and it paints everything in shades of now or never. – Amy Harmon
  25. They have forgotten that war is momentum.War is natural. And war makes one strong. – Robert Jackson Bennett
  26. It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable. – Mark Kurlansky
  27. War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse. – Alan Alda
  28. How you live your life is up to you. You have to go out and grab the world by the horns. Rope it before it ties you down and decides for you. – Sarah Reijonen
  29. To move ahead…you must grab the bull by the horns and start living your life. Stop living and doing everything for others and live it for yourself! – Timothy Pina
  30. You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough. – Jodi Picoult
  31. The problem with living without the person you can’t live without is eventually realizing you can live without them. – Charlaine Harris
  32. It was in love I was created, and in love is how I hope I die – Paolo Nutini
  33. Every day my anxiety is higher,every day the grief more mortal.Today more than yesterday terror exalts me-¦ – Pier Paolo Pasolini
  34. By now he had learned. Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains. – Paolo Giordano
  35. We survive, in the confusionof a life reborn beyond reason. – Pier Paolo Pasolini
  36. She was stung by sharp regret thinking about the sheets and tablecloths, so costly and never used due to excessive regard. – Paolo Giordano
  37. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? – Paolo Freire
  38. The revolution is now just a sentiment. – Pier Paolo Pasolini
  39. And you are going to close the gates, because I told you to close the gates. – Hilari Bell
  40. Sometimes you are more comfortable with a person who gets close without coming close. – Shampa Sharma

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