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“Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.”
― John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”
― Stephen King , The Stand

“Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
― Andre Brink, Before I Forget

“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Fuck the fates. They don’t get to decide shit for me. I decide what my future is going to be.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“He is the storm. You are the peace that must come after it. Tell me, do you believe in the fates, Alchemist?”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“Never forget… Monsters thrive best in the dark.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“For those who live their nightmares,
so that others may have their dreams.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“Make me forget that I've ever suffered,” I commanded. “Make me forget that I will again.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“Every warrior in Innìr will smell me on you, Fisher's voice rumbled in my mind. I'm going to make you hoarse from screaming my fucking name. I'm going to mark you in every way imaginable, so that everyone knows you're fucking mine.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“An Oshellith is a type of butterfly,” he called as he went. “Osha for short. They hatch, live, and die all in one day. The cold kills them very fast. Isn’t that right, Renfis?”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“That’s what Oshellith means in Old Fae, Saeris. Most Sacred.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“Always pay attention to the fine print. The devil's in the details. Now go.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver