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“Life is harsh, either way. You either hate the years that you’re given, or you love the years and they leave you.”
― Gillian Dowell, Hello, Dove

“Heaven doesn’t want me, and hell’s afraid I’ll take over.”
― John Langan, The Fisherman

“You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,” Clara says. “All you need is persistence and a sharp enough knife.”
― John Langan, The Fisherman

“But there are some things, no matter if they’re true, you can’t live with them. You have to refuse them. You turn your eyes away from whatever’s squatting right there in front of you and not only pretend it isn’t there now, but that you never saw it in the first place. You do so because your soul is a frail thing that can’t stand the blast-furnace heat of revelation, and truth be damned. What else can a body do?”
― John Langan, The Fisherman

“Maybe whoever, or whatever, is running the show isn’t so nice. Maybe he’s evil, or mad, or bored, disinterested. Maybe we’ve got everything completely wrong, everything, and if we could look through the mask, what we’d see would destroy us.”
― John Langan, The Fisherman

“Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“people’s memories are short for any sorrow that isn’t theirs,”
― John Langan, The Fisherman

“A bit of laughter can be the bridge that lets you cross out of a bad time, believe you me.”
― John Langan, The Fisherman

“It’s hard to hold onto any tragedies that aren’t your own for very long.”
― John Langan, The Fisherman

“Cycles exist because they are excruciating to break. It takes an astronomical amount of pain and courage to disrupt a familiar pattern. Sometimes it seems easier to just keep running in the same familiar circles, rather than facing the fear of jumping and possibly not landing on your feet.

My mother went through it.

I went through it.

I'll be damned if I allow my daughter to go through it.

I kiss her on the forehead and make her a promise. "It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“I feel like everyone fakes who they really are, when deep down we're all equal amounts of screwed up. Some of us are just better at hiding it than others.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Fifteen seconds. That’s all it takes to completely change everything about a person. Fifteen.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Naked truths aren’t always pretty.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Fuck that shit”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“The Only Way to Learn Is to Live”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Your actions are of love. Love can be manipulative.”
― Brooklynn Dean, Grieving the Spirit

“Everyone has a void inside of them. Every void is personal, and you fill it up as best you can. It's all about driving away the emptiness. You fill the void until you finally feel whole.”
― Jeremy Megargee, Dirt Lullabies

“i see parts of you that you don't even see anymore. buried parts. lost parts. the parts we hide to get along. a ghost, a shade, a monster...they're not so different from a person. every human is layered. decisions define them, and decisions define monsters too.”
― Jeremy Megargee, Hearts of Monsters

“guilt is natural, guilt is human. that pain in your heart is good. doesn't feel good, but it is. it reminds you that you did terrible things when you weren't yourself, and you're sorry for it.”
― Jeremy Megargee, Hearts of Monsters

“The world is full of knives that are illusions, and the ones that are real. The only difference is that the real ones spare you a lifetime of suffering.”
― Gillian Dowell, Hello, Dove

“New things lead to further curiosity, don't they?”
― Gillian Dowell, Hello, Dove

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Everyone had something to look back on and keep them up at night, memories that taunted and swirled through their mind, haunting them.”
― Sabrina Voerman, Æsa

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“What is sin but exploration?”
― Jeremy Megargee, Hearts of Monsters

“Pretending doesn't work forever.”
― Kevin Casin, Para el Pueblo - Issue 1 - May 2023

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind”
― Edgar Allen Poe