“I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.”
― Catching Fire
― Catching Fire
“Deeply vulnerable and hurting within as you act tough outside. You do need people; you need them so much so that it scares you to death. You drive them away so they don't get too close; yet you regret it every time you do.”
― Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
― Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
“If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.”
― Bad Feminist
― Bad Feminist
“We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.”
― Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
― Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
“I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City
Ray’s 2025 Year in Books
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