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21 " Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him. "
― Joe Hill , NOS4A2
22 " I was overcome by a wave of wonder at how much good was going on, and how you heard about the bad things that happened so much that you overlooked the immensely disproportionate majority of other acts done to the real benefit of self and others without which none of this would be here at all. "
― Ken MacLeod , Descent
23 " He wasn't telling her what the gods were, he was telling her what goodness was. To want other people to grow. To want other people to have all the good things that you have. And to spare them the bad things if you can. That was goodness. "
― Orson Scott Card , Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
24 " I missed you more now than I had when I lost you. I was forgetting the bad things faster than I forgot the good, and the changing ratio felt a little bit like falling in love even though I was actually speaking to you less and less. "
― Alexandra Kleeman , Intimations: Stories
25 " Some say crying purges. I say it drains. There’s a difference. One takes the bad things from you to help close a space. The other opens you and leaves you empty "
― Dan Skinner , The Price of Dick
26 " They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened Exodus (1960) screenplay "
― Dalton Trumbo
27 " When you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad things you did do - well that's memoirs. "