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“There are things of such darkness and horror - just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty - that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.”

“Maybe you can tell me - why should the silencing of that childish, demanding voice seem so much like dying?”

“It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough.
You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away.”

“He looked like the sort of guy you can't help liking on short notice and—just maybe-the kind of guy you can't help not liking after he's been around for a while.”

"You listen but you don't hear! You hear but you don't believe!

“The horrors of the Inquisition are nothing compared to the fates your mind can imagine for your loved ones.”