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“You didn’t lose your soul because magic ate it away slowly,” Qibli said. “You lost it because you chose to do terrible things, over and over again. Each terrible thing, each betrayal, each murder, added to this mountain.” He tapped the white sand side. “That’s not the magic’s fault. That's you. That’s who you chose to be.”
Collected by Anderson Grey

“History had a way of playing cruel tricks on people who chased it.”
Collected by Sophia

“Home, which had looked like such a safe place before, was now just a place where he might see ghosts, where he had to worry about his secrets being pulled out for anyone to see, where he had to worry about Mom and Dad worrying about him. He already felt haunted.”Collected by Zack

"He probably hadn’t followed their car for long. But the image of him flopping down on the gravel shoulder, confused, was worse."
Collected by Ben

"I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks."
Collected by Grace

"When you're creating a new sound and it's great, then it's one of the highest feelings in the world to you. It really felt unique and, most importantly, it was all ours. It felt right immediately." Collected by Ash

“You’re making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You’re not crazy the way they think.”Collected by Alex

“The tin of weed killer had started a new train of thought in my mind. It was the first definite suspicious circumstance that I had encountered.”Collected by Augie

“When no sound or air passed through Peony’s lips, Cinder lowered the vial.”
Collected by Sophia

“Everyone dies alone, Eragon. Whether you are a king on a battlefield or a lowly peasant lying in bed among your family, no one can accompany you into the void.”
Collected by Alec

"Let not thine eyes be blinded, my son,” she said. “The mountain road is full of dangers. LOOK carefully and follow the path which holds the piles of twigs. They will guide you to the familiar path farther down."
Collected by Vincent

"Blood prickles in my skin, hot and sticky, and I look around and see that all the other kids, big and small, are already doing what we've just been told to do." Collected by Kaitlin

"2042 is the year we conquered death, and also the year we stopped counting. Sure, we still numbered years for a few more decades, but at the moment of immortality, passing time ceased to matter."Collected by Kiyoshi

"He felt like the reports dropped a stone into the pond of his life, and now their impact was rippling inexorably outward toward some future he wasn't going to like."
Collected by Anderson Grey

“Adults talk about how kids' brains aren't fully developed and we're like bulletproof sociopaths or something, but that's not true, at least not for me. Most of us just have a hard time putting things into words.”

Collected by Mr. Murdick

“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

Collected by Mr. Murdick

"His hands looked like two leather bags filled with walnuts."

Collected by Mr. Murdick