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“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
― Stephen King, It

“Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.”
― Yann Martel, Beatrice and Virgil

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly the same slight emphasis on the second word, as though she were the one to say them first. He had no religious belief, but it was impossible not to think of an invisible presence or witness in the room, and that these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is organized in spheres joyful or threatening about the central pulse of himself, the dreamer whose puns probe ancient fetid shafts and tunnels of truth all act in the same special relevance to the word, or whatever it is the word is there, buffering, to protect us from. The act of metaphor than was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe or outside, lost.”
― Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

“She had heard all about excluded middles ; they were bad shit, to be avoided...”
― Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

“How do you feel about this terrible thing?"
"Terrible," said Oedipa.
"Wonderful!”
― Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

“The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.”
― Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

“We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple? ”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it--unable quite to let each other go.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
― John Banville, The Sea

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

“Don't try the paranormal until you know what's normal.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“Ne sanjamo svi jednako
i to nikome ne smeta.
A zašto svima smetamo
kad smo drukčije budni?”
― Miroslav Antić, Tako zamišljam nebo

“Uvek mi bežiš za jedno juče, uvek si daleko za jedno sutra.”
― Miroslav Antić

“Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas