“Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.”
Ray Bradbury book The Illustrated Man
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“Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.”
— Jodi Picoult, book Second Glance
Source: Second Glance
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