"Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud."
"Humans aren't defined by death, and they're not defined by what they lack. They're defined by their connections."
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Source: Dan Wells (2010). “Mr. Monster”, p.267, Macmillan
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