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“Hateful day when i received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even *you* turned from me in disgust [...] I am solitary and abhorred.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

“Nothing worth doing should be easy, she had always felt, and that included living.”
― Jonathan Sims, Thirteen Storeys

“El peligro de perder la propia identidad, de apartarse para siempre de la verdad. Cuanto más tiempo permanece un hombre en una forma que no es la suya, mayor es el riesgo.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin (Matilde Horne)

“Why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doating parents: how many brides and youthful lover have been one day in bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture?
But I was doomed to live.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus: Mary Shelley's 1831 Edition

“The ghosts were never the problem”
― Jonathan Sims, Thirteen Storeys

“I em pregunto si algú, un dia, seria prou boig per voler apagar els estels, fins que només en quedés un, trist i solitari puntet en una nit massa gran. I em pregunto si algú, un dia, seria prou boig per voler apagar les llengües, fins que només en quedés una.”
― Joan-Lluís Lluís, Balla amb Babel

“-¿Y la muerte?
[...]
-Para que una palabra sea dicha tiene que haber silencio. Antes y después.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin (Matilde Horne)

“You must struggle and strive to live, though death would seem a boon unspeakable. You must fight Death himself, though he come to you in pain or in joy; by the day, or the night; in safety or in peril! On your living soul I charge you that you do not die - nay, nor think of death - till this great evil be past.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“¿Qué mal les han hecho los árboles? - dijo -. ¿Tienen que castigar a la hierba por los errores que ellos mismos han cometido? Son hombres salvajes estos que incendia la tierra sólo porque están peleando con otros hombres.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin (Matilde Horne)

“Sólo lo que es mortal engendra vida, Arren. Sólo en la muerte hay renacimiento. El Equilibrio no es inmobilidad. Es un movimiento... un eterno devenir.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin (Matilde Horne)

“Qué es un hombre bueno, Arren? ¿Es un hombre bueno aquel que no haría el mal, aquel que no abriría la puerta que da a las tinieblas, aquel que no lleva la oscuridad dentro de él? Mira de nuevo, muchacho. Mira un poco más lejos.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin (Matilde Horne)

“She had found no place in her mind for religion, but seeing a creature of such physical evil in front of her, could she really be certain there was no such thing as a soul? It didn't matter, she'd made her choice. Diya closed her eyes and waited for the end.”
― Jonathan Sims, Family Business

“Parasites' Mary said. 'Feeding on the vulnerable, taking their strength from indifference and greed. There probably are more of them out there, aren't there?'
'Sure.' Xen exhaled smoke. 'They're called Tories.”
― Jonathan Sims, Family Business

“He told himself not to be ridiculous, to be like Jud and avoid ideas about what might be seen or heard beyond the Pet Sematary — they were loons, they were St Elmo's fire, they were the members of the New York Yankees' bullpen. Let them be anything but the creatures which leap ans crawl and slither and shamble in the world between. Let there be God, let there be Sunday morning, let there be smiling Episcopalian ministers in shining white surplices... but let them not be these dark and draggling horrors on the nightside of the universe.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...”
― Terry Pratchett