Now that he said it, though, even I had to admit it was one of the dumbest things I’d ever done. I mean, my God, how many horror films had I seen, and I had just turned into the girl who gets murdered in the first five minutes of the movie.
“Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.”
― First Frost
― First Frost
“I felt like the personification of a storm cloud: a mountainous cumulonimbus thunderhead stretching up into the dark stratosphere, churning with volatile currents, threatening to unleash stabs of lightning at any moment in any direction. A”
― The Man of Legends
― The Man of Legends
“Why do people always talk about how fast a car can get from naught to sixty? I mean, what’s the big deal about sixty miles an hour? It’s like people think aliens are going to land and only be able to do fifty-nine. They’ll suck out our brains unless we can do naught to sixty in less than ten seconds.”
― Say You're Sorry
― Say You're Sorry
“Lovely eyes in colour, lovely eyes in form — large and tender and quietly thoughtful — but beautiful above all things in the clear truthfulness of look that dwells in their inmost depths, and shines through all their changes of expression with the light of a purer and a better world.”
― Complete Works of Wilkie Collins
― Complete Works of Wilkie Collins
“Weirdly, strangely—wonderfully—he knew this was the moment he was touching the bottom, and he understood that from now on, however gradually, he would begin to heal.”
― Midnight Crossroad
― Midnight Crossroad
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