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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...”
― Stephen King

“There’s always a reason why things are as they are.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Life felt like hell, because we expected it to feel like heaven.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“He made himself the cure, which wouldn’t have been necessary if he hadn’t also created the disease.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“The world respected people who didn’t crave approval.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“the beauty in life is what we live for, and it’s everywhere. You just have to look closer.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

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

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Sometimes the happiest people are the saddest,”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“You are brave. We live in a society that tells us our parents are the greatest thing we will ever have and will ever lose, and you just – I don’t even know. You’re putting yourself first anyway. That’s brave.”
“I learned a long time ago that if I didn’t put myself first. Nobody else was going to. Forgiving people who repeatedly let you down is like sticking your hand in a fire over and over and expecting it to not keep burning you.”
― Hannah Grace, Wildfire

“Because pain in the body quiets the pain in the head. It feels good, like a kill switch for your brain.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Being scared and weak aren't synonymous. It takes strength to keep getting back up after constantly being knocked down.”
― H.D. Carlton, Does It Hurt?

“Today I’m the butcher, tomorrow I might be the cattle”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“He tried to hate all of humanity for being so fragile and ephemeral but he couldn't keep it up because hating everyone is the same as hating no one.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Cadáver exquisito

“The people who loved you, the ones who really cared, they would always come back. Sometimes, they even came back from the dead.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“People were temporary. It was the one thing you could count on: people always left,”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“Some hurts were good: friends grew apart, people moved away, they left. It didn’t have to last forever to count. Things ended, this was ending, but that didn’t mean it never mattered.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower