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“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”
― Neil Gaiman

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

“What sort of God would put us here in this goddamned, stinking slaughterhouse of a world?”
― William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

“If I had a dollar for every single time [Stephen Malkmus] said, 'it doesn’t matter', I wouldn’t have to work.”
― Bryan Charles, Wowee Zowee

“But ghosts aren't white and bright. Ghosts are shadows of someone or something gone wrong.”
― Paul Tremblay, Disappearance at Devil's Rock

“Any time an opportunity scares you that much, you should seriously consider saying yes.”
― Rob Lowe, Love Life

“There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light.”
― Rob Lowe, Love Life

“I have to return some videotapes”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“This is not an exit.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“Disappear here”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

“Children experience loneliness like shame. They imagine the reason they are alone is that there is something wrong with them, that they have done something bad, something that makes them too gross to touch.”
― Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park

“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