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But lately he’d noticed an air of grace settling in his daughter. He wasn’t sure where it had come from—some girls grew into womanhood gracefully, others remained girls their whole lives—but it was there in Katie all of a sudden, a
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“But a madman at ease is safer than a sane woman unsettled.”
― Malorie
― Malorie
“When an amateur attempts to conceal something, the more complex he makes his camouflage, the deeper the grave he digs for himself. But not so a genius. The genius does something far simpler, yet something no normal person would even dream of, the last thing a normal person would think of doing. And from this simplicity, immense complexity is created.”
― The Devotion of Suspect X
― The Devotion of Suspect X
“Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.”
― The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales
― The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales
“the myths were of a well-known pattern common to most of mankind and determined by early phases of imaginative experience which always produced the same type of delusion.”
― The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales
― The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales
“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.”
― Exhalation
― Exhalation
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