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“There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm...”
― James O'Barr

“So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“When sorrow comes, they come not single spies, but in battalions. I've allies in heaven, Jack, i've commrades in hell...say hello for me...”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“It's not death if you refuse it...
It is if you accept it.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.”
― James O'Barr

“Here dwells a snake, one thousand miles long
Coiled, one thousand miles deep
Eyes like candy, it has eyes like candy
Hard and blue, but soft as kittens feet
Out of sight or in the element of light
It could be a devil, it could be an angel
With spiders inside a vision from hell
Its spine is a vertical scream
Slow as concrete, blurred as a dream
Fueled by inertia, depth, radius, and velocity,
Its soul--a twisted wreckage of despair and pain
And the spiders inside are just praying for rain
Killing time killing time
And praying for rain
One thousand miles deep”
― James O'Barr

“People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Nothing is trivial.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“ICH BENDÜRFNES JESUS CHRISTUS HANGELENK
MEIN GEBEIN WEINEN
ODLAND, KRIEGSBIET, LEBENWEISE
GESCHWINDIGKEIT, HALBMESSER, ABSTEIG
GNAPENSTOB”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“It can't rain all the time.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Life is just a dream on the way to death.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”
― Ursula K. LeGuin

“O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”
― Leo Rosten

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
― Dr. Seuss

“If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”
― Ferdinand Foch

“Do you think I'm pretty?
I think you're beautiful
Beautiful?
You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

“In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I do not want your admiration now, because I do not want your insults in the future. I bear with my loneliness now, in order to avoid greater loneliness in the years ahead. You see, loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro

“Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man goes to war

Friendship dies and true love lies
Night will fall and the dark will rise
When a good man goes to war

Demons run, but count the cost
The battle's won, but the child is lost”
― Steven Moffat

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much

“We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
― Arthur Rimbaud