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“the seriousness of emotional deprivation:

It is not difficult to understand how children who have suffered from malnutrition or starvation need food and plenty of care in their bodies are to recover so they can go on to lead normal lives. If, however, the starvation is severe enough, the damage will be permanent and they will suffer physical impairments for the rest of their lives. Likewise, children who are deprived of emotional nurturing require care and love if their sense of security and self-confidence is to be restored. However, if love is minimal and abuse high, the damage will be permanent and the children will suffer emotional impairments for the rest of their lives.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski

“I hated them anyway, and wondered why it had been worth while creating them in the first place.”
― Shirley Jackson

“When you’re sad, look up at the stars, then close your eyes. The stars will tell you a story. Their soft gleam will embrace and comfort you and lead you confidently toward your goals.”
― Catherine Shepherd, Fatal Puzzle

“Of course curiosity killed the cat, and even if satisfaction supposedly brought it back, there's still that little problem with the man on the radio telling me more and more about some useless information.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“It was lemon verbena day, so the house was filled with a sweet-tart scent that conjured images of picnic blankets and white clouds shaped like true-love hearts.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“Unoccupied space will never cease to change simply because nothing forbids it to do so.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“There is no such thing as the last straw. There is only hay.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character.”
― Terry Goodkind, Naked Empire

“The sweltering darkness and vast weight of the surrounding silence seemed as eternal as death itself.”
― Terry Goodkind

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.”
― Anonymous

“There are times when there is no choice but to act immediately; even then it must be with your best judgment, using all your experience and everything you do know.”
― Terry Goodkind, Naked Empire

“People, if they don't take the lives of others, have the right to live their life.”
― terry goodkind

“You can't reason with a nightmare”
― Terry Goodkind, Naked Empire

“Nature heals itself. A tree falls down, another grows in its place.”
― Iain Rob Wright, The Picture Frame

“children were more partisan about their gaming choices than most political parties were about their manifestos.”
― Iain Rob Wright, The Picture Frame

“Sometimes a worrier worried for no reason. Sometimes, if there really was nothing at all to feel bad about, a worrier would worry about worrying.”
― Iain Rob Wright, The Picture Frame

“Readers wanted to fall in love with an author’s library, knowing that there would be more to come. Reader and author could be a lifelong love affair and, like a marriage, it needed tending to.”
― Iain Rob Wright, The Picture Frame

“Kids were easily screwed up if you weren’t careful. It was a parent’s job to steer them through dark situations and back towards the light. The very essence of parenthood was being a guide and mentor, using hindsight to help naive children prevail as better adults than they had been.”
― Iain Rob Wright, The Picture Frame

“even adults never truly lost their naivety of what the world’s underbelly was really like.”
― Iain Rob Wright, The Picture Frame

“a can-opener with no tuna made no sense to Boxes.”
― Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

“Monsters always prey on the people who’ve already been beaten down.”
― Craig Schaefer, Harmony Black

“Art is never finished, only abandoned." Leonardo da Vinci”
― Andrew Van Wey, Forsaken

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth." Pablo Picasso”
― Andrew Van Wey, Forsaken

“It’s impossible to un-know a secret. Once you know it, you own it. It can’t be returned like a borrowed book. Or burned like a love letter. The click of a mouse won’t delete it from the conscious mind. It’ll stick to the walls of your memory like dried oatmeal to a dish. The secrets you wish you never knew become a burden to lug. A bowling ball without holes. Some”
― Eva Lesko Natiello, The Memory Box

“But it never really occurred to me to ask myself whether this was what I wanted too,”
― J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before

“Never apologize for someone you love,”
― J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before

“But I see now that our future lies not in building beautiful havens from the ugliness in society, but in building a different kind of society. He”
― J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before