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  • #1
    John Joseph Adams
    “They almost killed me.” “I guess they didn’t.”
    John Joseph Adams, Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse

  • #2
    Tiffany Madison
    “No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.”
    Tiffany Madison

  • #3
    John Green
    “I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #4
    Gregory Maguire
    “As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.”
    Gregory Maguire

  • #5
    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours.”
    Michael Bassey Johnson

  • #6
    Stephen  King
    “It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.”
    Stephen King, Rage

  • #7
    Stephen  King
    “When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.”
    Stephen King, Rage

  • #8
    Terry Pratchett
    “DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
    Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

  • #9
    Neil Gaiman
    “It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
    Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

  • #10
    Terry Pratchett
    “She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.”
    Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

  • #11
    Stephen  King
    “That's what a shrink is for; friends and neighbors; their job is to fuck the mentally disturbed and make them pregnant with sanity.”
    Stephen King, Rage

  • #12
    Gillian Flynn
    “I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.”
    Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

  • #13
    Gillian Flynn
    “I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”
    Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

  • #14
    Gillian Flynn
    “The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”
    Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

  • #15
    Gillian Flynn
    “It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that simply wasn't so”
    Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

  • #16
    Gillian Flynn
    “I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone.”
    Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

  • #17
    Gillian Flynn
    “Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.”
    Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

  • #18
    Gillian Flynn
    “I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.”
    Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

  • #19
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if
    evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows
    disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the
    shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings.
    Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because
    of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #20
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #21
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
    Gabriel García Márquez

  • #22
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
    Gabriel García Márquez

  • #23
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

  • #24
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

  • #25
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

  • #26
    Edward de Bono
    “A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.”
    Edward De Bono, How to Have a Beautiful Mind

  • #27
    Dean Koontz
    “I hate violence. I hate injustice more. I just want to be a fry cook, but the world demands more from me than eggs and pancakes.”
    Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

  • #28
    James Joyce
    “He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances.”
    James Joyce, Dubliners

  • #29
    Lewis Carroll
    “Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, 'Do bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

  • #30
    Annie Dillard
    “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
    Annie Dillard, The Living



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