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“Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“In no way did I allow reality as it was to intrude on reality as I wanted it to be.”
― Mark Barrowcliffe, Mr Wrong: My Life as a Fool For Love

“There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“She went around with the attitude that she would rather be beaten to death than take any shit.”
― Stieg Larsson

“There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“Don’t ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she’ll get a bigger gun.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”
― Stephen King , The Stand

“We weren't creatures from another planet. We were creatures from Hell.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“Sometimes I got worried that my memory was falling apart.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.”
― John Marsden, A Killing Frost

“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”
― John Marsden, The Dead of Night

“Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world.”
― Frank Warren

“We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die

“Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”
― Bill Watterson

“If you think things can't get any worse, you have no imagination and no sense of history.”
― John S. Hall

“Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am? ”
― Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: a Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.”
― Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

“I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“Happy endings are still endings.”
― Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch

“Where's your will to be weird?”
― Jim Morrison

“My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
― Jim Butcher

“My past is everything I failed to be.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
― Joss Whedon