Danny > Danny's Quotes

“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“People could be cruel. They could be beautiful, but they could be cruel too. It's like something so lovely can't just be lovely. It also has to be harsh and corroding. It's a complexity I didn't understand.”
― T.J. Klune, Wolfsong

“Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“As parents we may not always be able to prevent all the horrible things that I've seen happen to kids. But we can prevent some of them if we try to understand the nature of the threat and the range of personality types and motivations of the threateners. It's critical that we try.”
― John E. Douglas, Journey Into Darkness

“Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.”
― Stephen King, It

“There's plenty of stories that need telling what never get told, just because people can't bear the listening.”
― Caleb Carr, The Angel of Darkness

“Am I damned? Am I from the devil? Is my very nature that of a devil? I was asking myself over and over. And if it is, why then do I revolt against it, tremble when Babette hurls a flaming lantern at me, turn away in disgust when Lestat kills? What have I become in becoming a vampire? Where am I to go?”
― Anne Rice, Ashes to Ashes

“So you’ll know there was tenderness, as well as pain. So you’ll know how we failed, both of us, but also how we both tried.”
― Bethan Roberts, My Policeman

“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
― Keanu Reeves

“They’ll want him to be mad, of course,’ Laszlo mused, not hearing me. ‘The doctors here, the newspapers, the judges; they’d like to think that only a madman would shoot a five-year-old girl in the head. It creates certain … difficulties, if we are forced to accept that our society can produce sane men who commit such acts.”
― Caleb Carr, The Alienist

“There's some things no six-year-old boy in the world should have to be told, but the way things should be and the way things are hardly ever get together. The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“When at last she slept, she dreamt of home. The kings road wound past Winterfell on it's way to the Wall, and Yoren had promised he'd leave her there with no one the wiser about who she'd been. She yearned to see her mother again, and Robb and Bran and Rickon...but it was Jon Snow she thought of most. She wished somehow they could come to the Wall before Winterfell, so Jon might muss up her hair and call her "little sister." She'd tell him, "I missed you," and he'd say it too at the very same moment, the way they always used to say things together. She would have liked that. She would have liked that better than anything.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones / A Clash of Kings

“If Gretchen had been feeling charitable she would have let me die...I wanted to die. I was ready to die. If she had put a scalpel in my hand, I would have stabbed myself in the neck and happily bled to death right there in her basement. She didn't do me any favours by not killing me. Gretchen enjoys people's pain. And she just found a way to prolong my pain and her pleasure. Believe me, it was the cruellest thing she could have done to me. If she could have thought of something crueller she would have done it. Gretchen doesn't show people mercy.”
― Chelsea Cain, Heartsick

“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”
― Stephen King , The Dark Tower

“I like to think of you not being able to end your suffering,' she said.
'I like to think of you not being able to satisfy your blood-lust,' he said.”
― Chelsea Cain, Sweetheart

“...in that moment she realised that Archie had never told her anything, never let her see anything, that he didn't want her to know.”
― Chelsea Cain, Heartsick

“...in that moment Archie realised that Gretchen had never told him anything, never let him see anything that she didn't want him to know. She had always been in control. She had always been one move ahead.”
― Chelsea Cain, Heartsick

“Behavior reflects personality.”
― John E. Douglas, Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

“We lie to each other all the time. Whatever we say, it doesn't mean anything."
"I'll believe you," she said.”
― Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice

“The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.”
― Caleb Carr, The Alienist

“Change isn't something that most people enjoy, even if it's progressive change.”
― Caleb Carr, The Alienist

“If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you’re a badass with the heart of an angel.”
― Keanu Reeves

“The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.”
― Keanu Reeves

“The institutional church must decide what their mandate is. If it is simply to make converts or fix those they believe to be broken, then perhaps they'll continue on with it brutally, as they have many times throughout history. But if the mandate is to love? Then they must first deal with their fear.”
― Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

“You’ve no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they’re not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn’t give you that right. Having more weapons doesn’t give you that right. Being from the Capitol doesn’t give you that right. Nothing does.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“I think there’s a natural goodness built into human beings. You know when you’ve stepped across the line into evil, and it’s your life’s challenge to try and stay on the right side of that line.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“And try not to look down on people who had to choose between death and disgrace.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“You can blame it on the circumstances, the environment, but you made the choices you made, no one else. It's a lot to take in all at once, but it's essential that you make an effort to answer that question. Who are human beings? Because who we are determines the type of governing we need. Later on, I hope you can reflect and be honest with yourself about that you learned tonight.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes