Vivek Bali

“Dead people can’t hurt you. They’ve left the big world and now reside only in the little world of your mind, where you’re God and you can pull their strings and make them come to life if you want, or set them in a corner until the next time you need that little something they bring. You can edit out the bad stuff and keep just those shining moments. It doesn’t always work that way and sometimes a piece of the bad will pop up and stick a needle in your brain. But that’s okay, because sometimes you need that.”
― Jack Moon, Coffin Dirt: A Tale of Winter

“Your assumptions are your worst enemies. Trust them too much, and you’ll fail to see what’s right under your nose.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.”
― Ted Chiang, Exhalation

“Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in  absolute  silence and barren immensity.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales