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China Miéville

“The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments.” ― China Miéville, Perdido Street Station (Macmillian; 1ST edition, January 1, 2001)

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Aldous Huxley

But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.  — Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Harper Perennial Modern Classics 1998) Originally published 1932.

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Margaret Atwood

Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line… Continue reading Margaret Atwood

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Harlan Ellison

Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment. ― Harlan Ellison

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Alexandra Bracken

I look at you, and I just love you, and it terrifies me. It terrifies me what I would do for you. —  Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade (‎ Hyperion Book CH; First Edition, November 5, 2013)

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