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“The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.”
― Holly Black, White Cat

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them.”
― Holly Black, White Cat

“She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.”
― Holly Black, Tithe

“What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove

“Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Every hero is the villain of his own story.”
― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“Sometimes, attaining the impossible was simply a matter of continuously putting one foot in front of the other, no matter what.”
― Drew Hayes, Super Powereds: Year 1

“I missed the days when I would silently judge seemingly crazy people in a park, instead of being one of them.”
― Drew Hayes, The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant

“In Seattle there is a constant hope for a period called “two days in a row when it doesn’t fucking rain.”
― Drew Hayes, Super Powereds: Year 1

“Humans can only toil endlessly for so long. Every now and then we need to taste the sweeter things in life, to remember why we do the work in the first place.”
― Drew Hayes, Super Powereds: Year 2

“It’s curious that children can either be expert liars or utterly incapable of hiding their emotions, and the classification changes from minute to minute.”
― Drew Hayes, The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant

“The truth had its place, and it was called a deathbed.”
― Drew Hayes, Super Powereds: Year 1

“Those who lived in the light could never truly know what it was to dwell in the shadows.”
― Drew Hayes, Super Powereds: Year 3

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“The things you used to own, now they own you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“I got into magic because I got into alchemy. Which I got into because I was into chemistry, which I was learning about because I wanted to get better with botany, which I had taken up studying in an effort to grow some killer weed”
― Drew Hayes, The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant

“And these invitations, these are already sent out?” Rich asked from the front row. “Indeed. Ever since the year a student attempted to hijack the mail truck, we’ve made it policy to only remind the students of Parents’ Weekend after all the invitations are delivered,”
― Drew Hayes, Super Powereds: Year 1