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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

“It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

“For after the Battle comes quiet.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

“We only have one life to live and everyone owes it to themselves to squeeze the maximum fun and joy out of it. Once your one life is gone, it’s gone.”
― Fiona Gibson, 'Tis the Damn Season

“And if you’re going to blame your parents for the bad stuff, you also have to give them credit for the good stuff.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing

“I think you actually have to have all of your dreams come true to realize they are the wrong dreams.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“if you spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror, you will crash your car.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“Do you know what St. Peter says to everyone who tries to get into heaven?"
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"Peter says, 'Don't you have any scars?' And when most would respond proudly, 'Well, no, no I don't,' Peter says, 'Why not? Was there nothing worth fighting for?”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“I’m not the biggest fan of confrontation. I ask a lot of questions. Just not out loud.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“She smiled again. "Do you like cat?" she said.
"Yes," said Richard. "I quite like cats."
Anaesthesia looked relieved. "Thigh?" she asked, "or breast?”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen King

“Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Just when you think you’ve seen the worst human beings have to offer, you find out you’re wrong,”
― Stephen King, Holly

“Holly knows this is how addicts think and behave: they rearrange the furniture of their lives to make room for their bad habits.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“Gifts are fragile. You must never entrust yours to people who might break it.”
― Stephen King, Holly

“Everyone wants to see a witch punish someone for stealing from her. A witch is a kind of justice in the world. It makes for a fine story. No one wants to admit the truth, for all it stares them plainly in the face."

"What's that?"

"Steal from a woman long enough, and a witch is what she'll become.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, The River Has Roots

“Most music is the result of some intimacy with an instrument. One wraps one’s mouth around a whistle and pours one’s breath into it; one all but lays one’s cheek against a violin; and skin to skin is holy drummer’s kiss. But a harp is played most like a lover: you learn to lean its body against your breast, find those places of deepest, stiffest tension with your hands and finger them into quivering release.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, The River Has Roots

“Oh yeah I'm always scared of stuff. You get to a certain age and they stop calling it scared and start calling it anxiety.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“It never occurred to her to doubt her welcome. Such was the gift of a child raised with love.”
― T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge