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“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“Daydreams can be dangerous.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I don't stoop to criticize you. I despise you. - Samuel Pilaster”
― Ken Follett, A Dangerous Fortune

“Once fallen, the blossom doesn't return to the branch”
― Lesley Downer, Across a Bridge of Dreams

“Sometimes you'll win, sometimes you'll lose, but you must never run away.”
― Lesley Downer, Across a Bridge of Dreams

“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“Coffee goes great with sudden death.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“I should just listen to my gut and then do the opposite.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“There was something terribly thrilling in watching the elements spit and sway and roar in fury, in standing fractionally too close to the cliff edge, feeling threatened and safe at the same time, shivering with cold and perspiring in fear. It was thrilling, and there were few thrills in her life.”
― Ken Follett, Eye of the Needle

“remember the small things, and the big things will work themselves out.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“Lale makes a vow to himself: I will live to leave this place. I will walk out a free man. If there is a hell, I will see these murderers burn in it.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“How can someone do this to another human being? He wonders if for the rest of his life, be it short or long, he will be defined by this moment, this irregular number: 32407.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“His mother he can see perfectly. But how do you say goodbye to your mother? The person who gave you breath, who taught you how to live?”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Small children are great accepters. They don’t understand shame, or the need to hide things.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“I think all mothers shine a little, you know, at least until their kids grow up enough to watch out for themselves.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.”
― Stephen King - The Shining, The Shining

“God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“A man who had a love affair was considered wicked but romantic; a woman who did the same was a whore.”
― Ken Follett, A Dangerous Fortune

“You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

“The soil of a man's heart is stonier, Louis. A man grows what he can, and he tends it. 'Cause what you buy, is what you own. And what you own... always comes home to you.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't believe that myself. Because there are too many different ideas on the subject. What we know is this: When we die, one of two things happens. Either our souls and thoughts somehow survive the experience of dying or they don't. If they do, that opens up every possibility you could think of. If they don't, it's just blotto. The end.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“He’s my cat! He’s not God’s cat! Let God have his own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary