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“Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“He had hidden in a city filled with black glass. But its surfaces made poor reflections, clinging jealously to their color as if they would reveal terrible pictures if they were allowed to clear.”
― Conrad Williams

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

“Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.”
― Stephen King

“Peace out, rainbow trout.”
― Conrad Williams

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.”
― Tanith Lee

“Two ingredients most valuable in the concocting of a ghost story are the atmosphere and the nicely managed crescendo
…Let us, then, be introduced to the actors in a placid way; let us see them going about their ordinary business, undisturbed by forebodings, pleased with their surroundings; and into this calm environment let the ominous thing put out its head, unobtrusively at first, and then more insistently, until it holds the stage.”
― M. R. James, A Warning to the Curious

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Love and Death? What has great music or poetry ever been about, but those twin forces that undo a man?”
― Douglas Wynne, The Devil of Echo Lake

“Marvin the Paranoid Android sat slumped, ignoring all and ignored by all, in a private and rather unpleasant world of his own.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“it is an ocean of burning oil I am cast adrift upon, no sea’s repose; I pass from waking agonies… to the semiconscious trance of torment in which the smaller, earlier, deeper rings of the brain know only that the nerves scream, the body aches, and there is no one to turn crying to for comfort.”
― Iain Banks

“Future became Present, Present became Past. A truth so banal, so obvious and accepted that he had somehow managed to ignore it before.”
― Iain Banks, The Bridge

“The thing that looked like a bear gazed down on her haughtily from its seven feet of height. Its head was in the sky and its claws held the earth.”
― Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“People were easy to manipulate when it came to their children. So pleased to see them pleased.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“I like photos better. They capture the thing in the moment.” “But painting is the repeated exposure to a thing. It captures the essence of the object.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“It was easy to kiss someone when it didn’t matter; it was more difficult when it might be meaningful.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“Death has a way of calling us home, and when it does we put on our best.”
― Douglas Wynne, Red Equinox

“Becca liked the spaces between bedtime books, the times when they just talked and mused while her eyes grew heavy.”
― Douglas Wynne, Red Equinox

“Rent was cheap at the edges of the flood zones, and the view could be oddly beautiful in a semi-apocalyptic sort of way.”
― Douglas Wynne, Red Equinox

“afternoons when the autumn sun slanted down and sliced the limpid surface of the shallow water at the base of the building, casting undulating lattices of light over the bricks, sine waves of amber fire, she could almost feel blessed to be alive in such a time.”
― Douglas Wynne, Red Equinox

“focused on the gossamer-thin threads of the dream, combing through them gently, so as not to break them with the crude tool of his intellect.”
― Douglas Wynne, Red Equinox

“There had always been something soothing to her about decaying places, something peaceful in their absolute abandonment. These failed structures existed in a realm beyond effort and ambition, beyond maintenance and manicure.”
― Douglas Wynne, Red Equinox

“the only precious things might be captured frozen moments in a chain of continual change.”
― Douglas Wynne, Red Equinox

“He could utter the black speech again and shake the pillars of the earth. He was an artist of the apocalypse, an engineer of the end. And he had come to sing his song.”
― Douglas Wynne, Red Equinox

“All the literature agreed, whether in pixels or ink, that the place had used the years to hone its talent for hiding between planes, merging with the landscape, as if it were made of mirrors rather than timbers, stone and glass.”
― Douglas Wynne, Black January

“It loomed out of the fog like the prow of a black ship, and for a moment she felt as if she were in a lifeboat on a limitless sea, falling under the baleful shadow of a vessel that promised no shelter, only menace and terrors”
― Douglas Wynne, Black January

“Are you going in now that…” Now that you have someone to hold your hand on the threshold of madness?”
― Douglas Wynne, Black January