“It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.”
No Country for Old Men (2005)
“Demons don't understand human hearts, not well. They see through a distorted glass and show you what you desire, but warped and wrong. Use that wrongness to push yourself out of the dream. Life is loss, Alexander, but it's better than this.”
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Cassandra Clare
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City of Heavenly Fire
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