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“It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“And Tom and Olympia both have pondered aloud, in their own ways, the worth of a life in which the only aim is to keep living”
― Josh Malerman, Malorie

“It had, however, been declared by his own physician to be a case of natural causes. Bentzen had gone to see the man and explained that falling down a flight of steps with a dagger in your back was a disease caused by an unwise opening of the mouth.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“We were just a bunch of scared and overly zealous kids grasping for a future we had all been promised, only to find out when we got there it had been reverse mortgaged so our spawners could go on cruises and never retire, just for fun. We did everything we were told to do. “Go to college so you don’t flip burgers!” our parents would say in liturgical unison. And all the politicians said, “Amen!” with raging boners over the interest we would be paying until the day we died of a preventable ailment. In the beginning, we never even questioned why we disparaged the culinary artists who prepared our meals, nor did we anticipate that we would all soon be fighting on the same battlefield together begging for table scraps. Comrades in arms of a war we didn’t even start. We were casualties of a massive game of Craps our parents were playing with the economy, betting their odds against our planet, our gains, our jobs, our education, our healthcare, our future. We were bitter millennials long before they even told us we had a title.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“They somehow figured out a way to make our parents cheer on our destruction instead of our success. We became the suspects, the terrorists living under their new roof, a marauding gang of anti-fascists ready to sell our souls for a couple of social media likes. Yes, Mom, we did it all for the lolz. What a laugh riot it has been to live under the highest inflation and lowest economy so we could pay into safety nets that would be consumed before we ever had a chance. We were all giving our lives in some way, over griddles with burger patties, in hallways of our schools to preserve the Second Amendment, or in deserts for you to fill up your SUV. Hell, there wasn’t a single one of us that didn’t know someone who had fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. They would return through that same revolving door. I sometimes wondered when they would replace the Vietnam vets on the street corners, panhandling on the Panhandle. “Never forget!” Oh, how we would forget their faces soon enough. They would be hidden under scruffy beards and ignored by the VA. Living in a military town, we knew all too well the song and dance. Just another cog in the machine of how our generation was being forgotten before it ever got a chance to begin.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“Watching as our friends went to go fight an invisible enemy called terrorism. Our friends dying outside of oil fields protecting special interests. None of it made sense. Just a few years ago, we were all suspects, potential school shooters, having to go through metal detectors to make sure we weren’t armed and then straight out of high school they handed all our friends guns and sent them halfway across the world to die in order to get gas prices back down below two dollars.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“It seemed that just around the time that everything started to feel normal again, here came the AV nerds running down the hallways again. Senior year began with the towers falling. It was all too much. It felt like the world was falling apart and we were just collateral damage in some game grown-ups were playing. A war began and it seemed like half the guys from my graduating class joined the military. They drove around in trucks with “Infidel” written in white letters across their windows. We now had an enemy at home and an enemy abroad. If you were different, if you didn’t look like Leave it to Beaver, you were a suspect. The Muslim kids and the Black kids and the queer kids and the alternative kids; we were a walking perp line.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“The weird thing about having your entire life destroyed before your very eyes is that it doesn’t feel very impressive or all that deconstructive in the moment. You don’t really know what is happening until you take a look back behind you and realize all the wreckage and are able to see clearly that you could have changed everything if you had just gone right instead of left.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“Even after their falling out, Shane never stopped truly caring for Nick, even if he couldn’t stand looking at him for more than a few seconds. It was the kind of heartbreak that people assume is exclusive to romantic love. After watching their breakup, I’m not sure there is really much of a difference between lovers or friends going their separate ways. They shared every bit as much intimacy, if not more, as lovers minus the physical consummation.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“Titanic had just been released that winter and we all went to see it a million times. Something about it captured our spirit of love and adventure like no other movie had. I don’t know what it was exactly, but we just couldn’t get enough. We were a bunch of teenagers walking around breaking our own hearts over and over again. It was perfect and beautiful.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“I thought that it was supposed to bring you happiness and fulfillment. But with each step up the stairway to heaven, Nick stopped loving, stopped smiling, and stopped laughing. I guess he had reached the final stage of process: he was the bishop. Now he had perfected these gifts inside himself he would be able to teach others to stop loving, stop smiling, and stop laughing.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“This is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“What Trump was too stupid to see, that any of us could have warned him, is that when you’ve got a generation of people who were raised being told the world belonged to them, you were just a means to an end. Millennials knew all too well that our parents used us as little remote controls and to fill the gas because they were too afraid to get their hands dirty. They didn’t just want Trump because he spoke like them and gave them permission to be their most vile selves in public; they wanted someone to do their dirty work for them.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“It takes a particular level of talent to be as profoundly bad at sports as I am.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“My father liked to constantly remind me that he put himself through college, purchased his first house and a car for $500 with his weekend job. The way I figured it, by rate of inflation and hours worked, I should have been able to afford a mansion and a yacht by now. Somehow, the math wasn’t working out like that. Maybe I was under my desk the day they taught that in school.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“So we acquit Andrew Jackson as the worst president and absolve FDR of his concentration camps and forgive Bush for misplacing weapons of mass destruction and Saint Obama because we face a greater evil. Will we ever be able to condemn a president after this and what power are we giving those future presidents if we are just grateful never to be ruled by someone quite like Trump again? Is this justice? Maybe not, but I sure could settle for a little bit of not feeling like the entire Republic might crash around me in an apocalyptic evangelical self-fulfilling prophesy.”
― Nathan Monk, All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge

“An unholy wave of putrid disgust flooded up from the basement the moment Richard cracked the door.”
― Patrick Reuman, A Place So Wicked

“Asking for help doesn’t make you weak. It just reminds you…” his voice broke with emotion, “you’re not alone.”
― Stacey Rourke, Pursuing Madness

“Sterling glanced to his sister, his brow creased with uncertainty. “I’m bad with social cues. And people. And basic communication. Was that a yes?”
― Stacey Rourke, Pursuing Madness

“Mercy! Mercy! Take what you want, just spare our lives!” Confused by this rather weak display from the sheriff’s men, Alice glanced Persephone’s way wearing a frown of disappointment. Take what they want? They wanted to emasculate the band of brutes. That, they accomplished with flair. So… what more did they dare desire?”
― Stacey Rourke, Pursuing Madness

“The one place she never wanted to enter again. The one place that held someone she couldn’t bring herself to give up on.”
― Darcy Coates, From Below

“You know how worried I am about Henry.” “I’m worried about him too, but what can we do?” wondered Adam,”
― Ben Cheetham, House Of Mirrors

“sometimes, an unasked-for gift could easily begin to look like a burden.”
― Darcy Coates, Gallows Hill

“I hope it isn’t rude to ask, but is Witchety your real name?” “Sure, it’s real,” Witchety replied. “Might not be the one I got at birth, mind, but I’ve been called Witchety for so long now that it’s more my own than anything else.”
― Darcy Coates, Gallows Hill

“I cannot take a breath, I am in LOVE with him!”
― W.J. May, Disavow

“Ciel,”
― W.J. May, Disavow

“Ciel, the fae word for beauty,”
― W.J. May, Disavow