Owlish Reader

“You, know, the only thing I can be is a writer. I'm absolutely unprepared for anything else. When you've lived the kind of life I have, you are good for nothing. Only writing can save you.”
― Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

“It was haunted; but real hauntings have nothing to do with ghosts finally; they have to do with the menace of memory.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

“There should be a word for the microscopic spark of hope that you dare not entertain in case the mere act of acknowledging it will cause it to vanish, like trying to look at a photon. You can only sidle up to it, lookong past it, walking past it, waiting for it to get big enough to face the world”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

“Percy…” he said, his eyes never leaving Elizabeth. “Er, yes, Viscount?” “Piss off, there’s a good chap.”
― Joy Demorra, True Love Bites