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“She did not believe in fate; the world seemed far chancier than that, a series of mishaps and narrow escapes you somehow managed to survive until, one day, you didn’t.”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage

“Give people hope, and you could make them do just about anything. And not just your average, everyday kind of hope—for food or clothes or the absence of pain or good suburban schools or low down payments with easy financing. What people needed was a hope beyond the visible world, the world of the body and its trials, of life’s endless dull parade of things.”
― Justin Cronin, The Twelve

“In a hundred years, you get around to thinking about pretty much everything. All the things you did, the people you knew, the mistakes you made. The books you read, the music you listened to, how the sun felt, the rain. It’s all still there inside you. But it’s not enough, is it? That’s the thing. The past is never enough.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

“How ironic! We are born faithful and afraid, when it should be the opposite; it is life that teaches us how much we stand to lose.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

“Now it is dark. Stars soar above the vacant city, heaven’s diadem. A century since the last person walked here, and still one cannot travel its streets, as I do, without seeing one’s face reflected a thousand-fold.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

“All his many nights at sea, the stars had been his most loyal companions. He preferred them to the moon, which seemed to him too frank, always begging to be noticed; the stars maintained a certain cagey distance, permitting the mystery of their hidden selves to breathe.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

“I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who I was, and what exactly was looking at the face in the mirror. If the face I was looking at wasn’t me, and I knew it wasn’t, because I would still be me whatever happened to my face, then what was me? And what was watching?”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Want to know something funny? Even people capable of living in the past don’t really know what the future holds.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it’s too late.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“because I don’t want to believe we just end, even though it balances the equation—since we came from blackness, it seems logical to assume that it’s to blackness we return. But I believe in the stars, and the infinity of the universe. That’s the great Out There.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“People are blind to explanations that lie outside their perception of reality.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“If you can’t let go of the past, the mistakes you’ve made will eat you alive.”
― Stephen King, The Outsider

“I understand the way the brain can fundamentally fuck with every other aspect of your body; the way your emotions can distort things—emotions you didn’t even know you had.”
― Stacy Willingham, A Flicker in the Dark