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21 " It's not lies or anything, just truths I made up. "
― David Mitchell , Black Swan Green
22 " Den svatého Valentýna, Den matek a Den bezrukých brankářů jsou bez výjimky komploty výrobců pohlednic, květinářek a čokoládoven. "
23 " Hate smells of burnt dead fireworks "
24 " These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all. "
25 " The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense? "
26 " Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there. "
27 " Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister? "
28 " Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice. "
29 " Listening's reading if you close your eyes. Music's a wood you walk through. "
30 " Probably" is a word with an emergency ejector seat. "
31 " Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks. "
32 " Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison! "
33 " War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery. "
34 " If swans weren't real, myths'd make them up. "
35 " Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day. "
36 " Music’s a wood you walk through. "
37 " How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body? "
38 " If your words're true, they're armed. "
39 " Time in the wood's older than time in clocks, and truer. "
40 " War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. "