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  • #1
    Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
    “Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
    Josephine Hart, Damage

  • #2
    Jim Thompson
    “Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.”
    Jim Thompson
    tags: noir

  • #3
    Paco Ignacio Taibo II
    “They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.”
    Paco Ignacio Taibo II

  • #4
    Anton Chekhov
    “What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.”
    A.P. Chekhov

  • #5
    Heidi W. Durrow
    “Grandma sees these things when she talks about them and gestures with her hands like she's painting brush strokes in the air. The way Grandma paints her dreams for me, there's a low sky.”
    Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

  • #6
    Heidi W. Durrow
    “A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing," Grandma says. "You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need...”
    Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

  • #7
    Jim Thompson
    “There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.”
    Jim Thompson

  • #8
    “مسكينة هي المكسيك !! .. لبعدها عن الله ،
    ولقربها من الولايات المتحدة !
    (الرئيس المكسيكي بورفيرو دياز)
    Poor Mexico, so far from God
    and so close to the United States”
    Porfirio Díaz

  • #9
    “If you’re any good at all, you know you can be better.”
    Lindsay Buckingham

  • #10
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #11
    Chinua Achebe
    “A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string.”
    Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

  • #12
    Nike Sulway
    “The words sink and rise along the streets, are breathed in and out by the citizens, are pressed like bombs into the hands of the children, and thrown against the walls of the city. And the walls of the world tremble and shudder. And the walls of the world fall down.”
    Nike Sulway, Letters to Tiptree

  • #13
    Sofia Samatar
    “Are you just going to stand there and leak like a broken hourglass?”
    Sofia Samatar, The Closest Thing to Animals

  • #14
    Katherine Rundell
    “Cowardice is for cowards. Fear is for people with brains and eyes and functioning nerve endings.”
    Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder

  • #15
    Katherine Rundell
    “Wolves are the witches of the animal world.”
    Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder

  • #16
    Katherine Rundell
    “It's dancing! It's magical, actually. A kind of slowish magic. Like writing with your feet.”
    Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder

  • #17
    Hubert Haddad
    “Let's not be afraid...there is always a step after the last step.”
    Hubert Haddad, Rochester Knockings: A Novel of the Fox Sisters

  • #18
    Hubert Haddad
    “There will always remain more ashes than remorse.”
    Hubert Haddad, Rochester Knockings: A Novel of the Fox Sisters

  • #19
    Emily St. John Mandel
    “It is sometimes necessary to break everything.”
    Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

  • #20
    Stuart Turton
    “How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home?”
    Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle



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