Goatllama

“Her eyes opened and then rolled into the back of her head, showing off those horrible bright whites with their convoluted red maps. She laughed, groaned, and said in [a] small, tight whisper, "Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god...[I can still hear them]”
― Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts

“The first book that I bought with my own money was "The Blue Aspic" by Edward Gorey. In fact, when the first two volumes of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" were ready to be published, I sent them to Edward Gorey with a note saying how much I admired his work and how much I hoped that he would forgive what I had stolen from him. Shortly after I sent it, he died. So, I like to think that I killed him.”
― Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else?

“Some children, you see, don't need wars or famines or plagues to convince them that vegetables have the right idea about life. Some children are convinced from the start.”
― Stepan Chapman, The Troika

“The war solved no problem. Its effects, both immediate and indirect, were either negative or disastrous. Morally subversive, economically destructive, socially degrading, confused in its causes, devious in its course, futile in its result, it is the outstanding example in European history of meaningless conflict... [a]lmost all [involved]... were actuated rather by fear than by lust of conquest or passion of faith. They wanted peace and they fought for thirty years to be sure of it. They did not learn then, and have not since, that war breeds only war.”
― Wedgwood C. V., The Thirty Years War