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“JUST FOR THE record, I do not consider myself an evil person (though how like a killer that makes me sound!). Whenever I read about murders in the news I am struck by the dogged, almost touching assurance with which interstate stranglers, needle-happy pediatricians, the depraved and guilty of all descriptions fail to recognize the evil in themselves; feel compelled, even, to assert a kind of spurious decency. “Basically I am a very good person.” This from the latest serial killer—destined for the chair, they say—who, with incarnadine axe, recently dispatched half a dozen registered nurses in Texas. I have followed his case with interest in the papers.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Death is the mother of beauty. And what is beauty? Terror. Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming. And if beauty is terror, then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it? To live. To live forever.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Gansey, a furious sun, glowed from the other side of the universe, his gravitational pull too distant to affect Adam.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“She is beautiful in the way only a haunted person can be, like a glimmer of light falling over fragments of shattered glass—dangerous if not treaded around with wary feet.”
― M.R. Pilot, A Bloodline's Echo