David Blanco

“There’s something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chance to see how it all comes out. Of course, I suppose everyone always dies in the middle of a good story, in a sense. Your own story. Or the story of your children. Or your grandchildren. Death is a raw deal for narrative junkies.”
― Joe Hill, The Fireman

“There is no good that cannot produce evil and no evil that cannot produce good.”
― Carl Jung

“Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.”
― Dean Koontz, The Odd Thomas #1-4: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours

“Lines from an old film came back to him unbidden: That I should want you at all suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. You’re an improbable person, and so am I.”
― Douglas Preston, The Obsidian Chamber