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“Forty-three years old, and still afraid of my father. Some tycoon, hunh?”
― John Saul, Hellfire

“He was my father, darling, but I have to confess I didn’t like him very much.”
― John Saul, Hellfire

“The Night Managers.”
― Bentley Little, The Store

“This’s a citizens’ meeting,” Forager sneered. “Not a council meeting. Nobody’s gonna run it.” “I see,” Norton said, standing up. He was pleased to note that Forager moved back another pace. “In that case, you can count on me showing up. I always wanted to see a meeting nobody was running. It ought to be fascinating.”
― John Saul, Suffer the Children

“You love her, even if you don’t believe you do. You’re used to her, and a lot of love is nothing more than habit.”
― John Saul, Suffer the Children

“A Connally! Always remember that I raised you to be a Connally!”
― John Saul, The Blackstone Chronicles: The Serial Thriller Complete in One Volume

“The air down here doesn't smell of sugar and coffee. It smells damp, rotten.”
― Danielle Vega, The Merciless IV: Last Rites

“You should be allowed to scream in public whenever a conversation gets really awkward. And then time could reset itself and you get a do-over.”
― Danielle Vega, Survive the Night

“The people you love weren’t algebra: to be calculated, subtracted, or held at arm’s length across a decimal point.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“I'm allowed to be afraid, I remind myself, taking a deep breath of the hot, stale hallway air. I'm just not allowed to run away.”
― Danielle Vega, The Merciless

“But sometimes remembering isn’t for yourself, sometimes you do it just to make someone else smile. Those lies were allowed.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“The terrible dark, where nothing, not even time itself, existed.”
― John Saul, Midnight Voices

“Real men wear floral when trespassing”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“Green hills wash sunlight blue.”
― Mike Mullin, Ashfall

“A librarian can’t live by books alone, and I wouldn’t eat them if I could. Feel too much like cannibalism.”
― Mike Mullin, Ashfall

“For the first time ever, I felt ashamed of my species. The volcano had taken our homes, our food, our automobiles, and our airplanes, but it hadn’t taken our humanity. No, we’d given that up on our own.”
― Mike Mullin, Ashfall

“Roll over.”
― Mike Mullin, Ashfall

“It’s hard to fall asleep when Zeus is machine-gunning thunder at you.”
― Mike Mullin, Ashfall

“Since we left Worthington.”
― Mike Mullin, Ashfall

“When I first saw you in your barn, I thought you were an angel.”
― Mike Mullin, Ashfall

“I think generosity makes you horny.”
― Mike Mullin, Ashen Winter

“Sure thing, cuz.”
― Mike Mullin, Ashfall

“Don’t waste energy living a life someone else designed for you. Life is one per customer. Let them do theirs. You do yours.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

“There are no atheist in foxholes, kids.”
― Mike Mullin, Ashfall

“There are so many young women who need to hear this story. I don't want them to learn from my mistakes; I want them to stop hating themselves for mistakes of their own. I want them to laugh and see that they do have a voice and their own brand of intelligence and, girl, fuck fitting in.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

“Some friendships just have their seasons, and that's ok.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

“When you endure horror day after day, month after month, it becomes normalized. I built high stone walls around my heart—walls that no one could break through or climb over for more than twenty years. My MO was to not think about it, not talk about it. Don’t feed the beast. Don’t give it any oxygen. It’ll go away. For a long time, I made that work, but every now and then, some random thing would trigger a flood of memory and anxiety and crush my soul all over again.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: A Memoir for Young Women in the Age of Influencers

“Know your worth, girls. You’re not lucky to be at the party; the party is lucky to have you. Apply as needed to relationships, jobs, and family.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: A Memoir for Young Women in the Age of Influencers

“Here’s what I believe: Your reality is totally up for grabs; if you don’t create your own life, someone else will create something based on their own agenda and project that on you. Don’t let them do it, my loves. Don’t let them tell you that their something is bigger than your everything.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

“The people who hurt you don’t get the last word. You get to tell the story of you, and “your story has more power than you can imagine.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir