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  • #1
    Shirley Jackson
    “I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.”
    Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

  • #2
    Shirley Jackson
    “I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.”
    Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

  • #3
    Beryl Bainbridge
    “The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour”
    Beryl Bainbridge

  • #4
    John Ajvide Lindqvist
    “Are you OLD?"
    "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.”
    John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In

  • #5
    Mildred D. Taylor
    “Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.”
    Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

  • #6
    Rick Riordan
    “Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #7
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”
    Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

  • #8
    Ray Bradbury
    “Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.”
    Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

  • #9
    Alan             Moore
    “If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice.”
    Alan Moore, Batman: The Killing Joke

  • #10
    Stephen  King
    “It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all the things his MAN and his WOMAN, and most of all his BOY, had asked or expected of him. He would have died for them, if that had been required. He had never wanted to kill anybody. He had been struck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies. Free will was not a factor.”
    Stephen King, Cujo

  • #11
    Stephen  King
    “The monster nevers dies.”
    Stephen King, Cujo

  • #12
    Stephen  King
    “It was a love that had nothing to do with Joe Camber's day-to-day behavior toward him or his mother; it was a brute, biological thing that he would never be free of, a phenomenon with many illusory referents of the sort which haunt for a lifetime: the smell of cigarette smoke, the look of a double-edged razor reflected in a mirror, pants hung over a chair, certain curse words.”
    Stephen King, Cujo

  • #13
    Stephen  King
    “A woman doesn't necessarily mind being looked at. It's being mentally undressed that makes you nervous.”
    Stephen King, Cujo

  • #14
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “There was a time in my demented youth
    When somehow I suspected that the truth
    About survival after death was known
    To every human being: I alone
    Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy
    Of books and people hid the truth from me.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

  • #15
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “All religions are based on obsolete terminology.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

  • #16
    Ed Brubaker
    “Whatever you do, remember that. You're going to make a difference. A lot of times it won't be huge, it won't be visible even. But it will matter just the same. Don't do it for praise or money, that's what I want to tell you. Do it because it needs to be done. Do it to make your world better.”
    Ed Brubaker, Gotham Central, Book One: In the Line of Duty

  • #17
    Douglas Adams
    “Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that's something you might have to consider.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #18
    John Kennedy Toole
    “Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking. ”
    John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

  • #19
    John Kennedy Toole
    “Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?”
    John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

  • #20
    John Kennedy Toole
    “I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.”
    John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

  • #21
    Mark Manson
    “You and everyone you know are going to be dead soon. And in the short amount of time between here and there, you have a limited amount of fucks to give. Very few, in fact. And if you go around giving a fuck about everything and everyone without conscious thought or choice—well, then you’re going to get fucked.”
    Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

  • #22
    Graham Greene
    “[-] unemployment was not a mark of the lazy man; that the beggar did not beg because he would not work; that had once been the case in the England he knew best, but things were different now.”
    Graham Greene, It's a Battlefield

  • #23
    Luigi Pirandello
    “When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even in many other situations where the author never dreamed of placing him; and so he acquires for himself a meaning which the author never thought of giving him.”
    Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

  • #24
    Luigi Pirandello
    “The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.”
    Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

  • #25
    Stephen  King
    “Sometimes you have to be a high riding bitch to survive, sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has to hang on to.”
    Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

  • #26
    Naoki Urasawa
    “A child's growth is defined entirely by the adult that raises him.”
    Naoki Urasawa, Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Volume 3: 511 Kinderheim

  • #27
    Yoshitoki Oima
    “Just what is a friend anyway? When do people start seeing each other as friends? When they first talk alone? When they exchange contact information? When they take a photo together? I’ll bet they know... what friends are.”
    Yoshitoki Oima, 聲の形 2 [Koe no Katachi 2]



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