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“The fortune teller gazed into my eyes and whispered, "Your deepest desire will come true tonight." When I came home, I found my wife's dead body lying in her own blood.”
― Victorius Kingston

“The scratching at the door persisted. but I was too afraid to let my cat in. He had been dead for a week.”
― Victorius Kingston

“My daughter kept saying there was a monster under her bed. I sniggered and looked, only to find my daughter hiding, terrified, under the bed.”
― Victorius Kingston

“Laying awake on my childhood bed, I heard the closet door open. I never realized the monster inside was real until it whispered, “I’ve been waiting for you.”
― Victorius Kingston

“The attic in my mother's house was always off-limits. When I finally couldn't resist exploring it, I found a dusty photo album filled with pictures of my funeral.”
― Victorius Kingston

“I started receiving text messages from my best friend, who died three years ago. The last message read, "Hurry up, I'm waiting for you outside.”
― Victorius Kingston

“I heard my step daughter's voice calling for help from the basement, in the middle of the night. I rushed down, only to remember that I had pushed her down the stairs to her death, the night before.”
― Victorius Kingston

“I received a voicemail from my grandmother that said "I'm coming to visit, dear. Don't bother locking the doors." Today is the second anniversary of her death.”
― Victorius Kingston

“As the therapist listened to her patient's deepest fears and insecurities, she couldn't shake the feeling that they were somehow reflecting her own dark thoughts. When she saw her reflection in the mirror, she realized she had been alone in her office the whole time.”
― Victorius Kingston

“I awoke in a hospital bed, surrounded by loved ones. Their smiles slowly turned to malicious grins as they said in unison, "You shouldn't have woken up.”
― Victorius Kingston

“She woke up the faint sound of scratching beneath her bed. It was the last thing she heard before icy fingers wrapped around her ankle and dragged her into the darkness.”
― Victorius Kingston

“My daughter described her imaginary friend Lily as a girl who was always covered in blood. Lily is the name of the little girl who died in an accidental hit-and-run I was responsible for.”
― Victorius Kingston

“I’ve been anonymously sending her gifts every day. Each package contains a piece of her boyfriend’s severed body parts.”
― Victorius Kingston

“He woke up to the sound of weeping in his ear. When he opened his eyes, he saw his own lifeless body hovering above him.”
― Victorius Kingston

“Her husband's sleepwalking had always been a source of amusement for her. It was no longer amusing when one night she woke up to find him standing at the edge of their bed in his sleepwalking state, holding a knife and whispering, "You're next”.”
― Victorius Kingston

“You have your mother's eyes!" my grandmother gasped. She couldn't bear the sight of my mother's gouged eyes laying lifeless in my palms.”
― Victorius Kingston

“The doctor pronounced me dead and sent me for an autopsy. I could still feel every incision when they started operating on me”
― Victorius Kingston

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

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

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

“Thus while the ground of justification is the death of Christ, the means by which justification becomes efficacious to the individual is faith.29 Justification is a gift bestowed to be received by faith (Rom. 3:24, 25). Faith means acceptance of this work of God in Christ, complete reliance upon it, and an utter abandonment of one’s own works as the grounds of justification”
― George Eldon Ladd, A Theology of the New Testament

“Her expression sobered as her green-gold eyes traced my face, lips slightly parted. She looked nervous for a split second, and her brow furrowed before she spoke. “I love you,” she said softly. She beat me to it.”
― Avery Keelan, Offside

“That plan was easier plus 100 percent less murdery. And I liked it better.”
― Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry

“In practice, the barre method is only vaguely connected to ballet. There are quasi pliés, you point your toes and turn out your hips sometimes, and, as is denoted, you spend a lot of time gripping a barre.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror

“It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall. His body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backward through the ragged veil hanging from the arch. . . . And Harry saw the look of mingled fear and surprise on his godfather’s wasted, once-handsome face as he fell through the ancient doorway and disappeared behind the veil, which fluttered for a moment as though in a high wind and then fell back into place.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“He cares for you. That’s already hard enough for him.”
“He cares about keeping me alive. There’s a difference.”
“Not for him there isn’t.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“New”
― Oxford University Press, The New Oxford American Dictionary