"I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two."
— Lynsay Sands (Love Bites)

""you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction"
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— Isabel Allende

"The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night."
— Isabel Allende

"The next time you try to hit me use a bat or crowbar or something...
~Jacob Black"
— Stephenie Meyer

""The forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest." "
— -Stephanie Meyer

"A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth."
— Gabriel García Márquez

"El secreto de una buena vejez no es mas que un pacto honrado con la soledad."
— Gabriel García Márquez (Cien Anos De Soledad/ One hundred Years of Solitude: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Compendios Vosgos)

"You can't regret the life you didn't lead."
— Junot Diaz

"Junot Diaz said about writers: "What we do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.""
— Junot Díaz

"It's never the changes we want that change everything."
— Junot Díaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)

"Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult."
— Anne Rice (Interview With the Vampire)

"I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius"
— Anne Rice

"...And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have."
— Anne Rice (Interview With The Vampire)

"Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven."
— Anne Rice (Memnoch the Devil)