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“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“When skies above were not yet named
Nor earth below pronounced by name
There was water...”
― Carol K. Mack and Dinah Mack, A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits

“If they cheat, can I shoot them?”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, The Killing Dance

“What do they do for a village idiot when you're here?”
― Tanya Huff, Blood Price

“I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“The day misspent,
the love misplaced,
has inside it
the seed of redemption.
Nothing is exempt
from resurrection.”
― Kay Ryan, Say Uncle

“Tis the night—the night
Of the grave's delight,
And the warlocks are at their play;
Ye think that without,
The wild winds shout,
But no, it is they—it is they!”
― Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Halloween: A Romaunt

“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
― Howard Nemerov

“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee

“Of the name and abode of this man but little is written, for they were of the waking world only; yet it is said that both were obscure. It is enough to know that he dwelt in a city of high walls where sterile twilight reigned, and that he toiled all day among shadow and turmoil, coming home at evening to a room whose one window opened not on the fields and groves but on a dim court where other windows stared in dull despair.
—"Azathoth" from Dagon and Other Macabre Tales”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

“I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
― J.K. Rowling

“By degrees, however, they began to hope again. Such are our insubmergable mirages of the soul! There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.”
― Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs

“Sir, this lane is for ten items or less. I’m counting thirteen items in your cart, including that hemorrhoid cream. And while hemorrhoids might give you a reason to be nasty, they don’t give you a reason to be in this lane.”
― J. A. Konrath

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
― Victor Hugo