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“Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.”
― Gena Showalter, The Darkest Night

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“When you're backed against the wall, break the goddamn thing down.”
― Harvey Specter

“The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
― Harvey Specter

“Winners don't make excuses when the other side please the game.”
― Harvey Specter

“Ever loved someone so much, you would do anything for them? Yeah, well make that someone yourself and do whatever the hell you want.”
― Harvey Specter Suits

“Dead people, dead ideas and supposedly dead moments are never really dead and they shape every moment of our lives. We ignore them and this makes them powerful.”
― Caitilín R. Kiernan

“Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

“I want a relationship I can finally sink my teeth into.”
― Ellen Schreiber

“Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

“There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there's always a siren. It may be with us all our lives, or it may be many years or decades before we find it or it finds us. But when it does find us, if we're lucky we're Odysseus tied up to the ship's mast, hearing the song with perfect clarity, but ferried to safety by a crew whose ears have been plugged with beeswax. If we're not at all lucky, we're another sort of sailor stepping off the deck to drown in the sea.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

“No one ever said you have to be dead and buried to be a ghost.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

“No story has a beginning, and no story has an end. Beginnings and endings may be conceived to serve a purpose, to serve a momentary and transient intent, but they are, in their fundamental nature, arbitrary and exist solely as a convenient construct in the minds of man. Lives are messy, and when we set out to relate them, or parts of them, we cannot ever discern precise and objective moments when any given event began. All beginnings are arbitrary.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

“You love someone. You don’t leave her to drown. And you don’t tell her she’s crazier than she already knows that she is!”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

“I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It's entirely too awful, having thoughts that refuse to become sentences.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

“That's another sort of being haunted: starting something and never finishing it.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code

“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

“Books fall open, you fall in.”
― David T.W. McCord

“Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
― Albert Camus

“People, generally, suck.”
― Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

“We are surrounded by story.”
― Alice McDermott

“The things you used to own, now they own you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier