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“It wasn’t about believing this or that, it wasn’t about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to…

— Mark Haddon

“The world out there was the way it was no matter how much doubt or hope or hate a person breathed into it.”

— Hugh Howey

“Most of us knew in our bones that things with the world weren’t right, long before it became a crisis.”

— Pernell Plath Meier

“Ev­ery­thing they be­lieved in turned out to be wrong.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“A strange mixture of disbelief and complete trust washed over me. On the one hand, I had no way to explain what had just…

— Larry Gottlieb

“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“It appeared as if the whole world was one elaborate system, opposed to justice and kindness, and set to making cruelty and pain.”

— Upton Sinclair

“Doing the right thing had never felt more wrong than it did right then. Maybe that was how it always felt. I wouldn’t know.…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“Such thoughts were a hideous testimony to the world he had accepted; a world in which murder was easier than hope.”

— Richard Matheson

“with the realization that no one knew the truth about my life, my thoughts about the world were shaken.”

— Jay Asher

“It was an unhappy truth, he told himself, that nearly all people in the world behave badly when there is something really big at…

— Roald Dahl

“Did it do me any good, early in life, to believe so many things which were not true? Or did it damage me? Pouring…

— Sara Baume