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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Einstein said, “The weak revenge. The strong forgive. The intelligent ignore.”
― S.T. Abby, The Risk

“I love humanity but I hate humans. —Albert Einstein”
― S.T. Abby, The Risk

“If you ever want help feeling alive, call me. I could use some life as well.”
― S.T. Abby, The Risk

“He serves justice the best he can. I serve revenge in the way it needs to be.”
― S.T. Abby, The Risk

“You should have killed me deader,” I say just as the blade digs into the yielding flesh.”
― S.T. Abby, The Risk

“Even a monster has nightmares. I’ll be his.”
― S.T. Abby, The Risk

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. —Confucius”
― S.T. Abby, Sidetracked

“There’s a certain high you get from fooling the world into thinking you’re the lamb instead of the rabid wolf.”
― S.T. Abby, Sidetracked

“He’s bringing back parts of me that I thought were dead, resurrecting my soul from ashes. But all the shadows that lurk inside me, hiding the monster within… Those are parts he can never see.”
― S.T. Abby, Sidetracked

“It’s often easier for someone to believe evil can’t exist inside someone they love, than to admit they’ve failed someone who should be more important.”
― S.T. Abby, Sidetracked

“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here. —William Shakespeare (The Tempest)”
― S.T. Abby, Scarlet Angel

“good conquers evil, because evil works alone.”
― S.T. Abby, Scarlet Angel

“Confucius said something about digging two graves if you seek revenge.”
― S.T. Abby, All the Lies

“Common sense is not so common.”
― S.T. Abby, All the Lies

“He just loves me enough to feel betrayed,”
― S.T. Abby, Paint It All Red

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
― S.T. Abby, Paint It All Red

“Einstein believed that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
― S.T. Abby, Paint It All Red

“I’m still the twisted monster of the night, while you’re the honest hero in the light.”
― S.T. Abby, Paint It All Red

“it was the Hawaiian meaning above all else that suited me—afloat; calm as still waters. It took a storm to offer me a calm.”
― S.T. Abby, Paint It All Red

“Everything’s fine today; that is our illusion.”
― S.T. Abby, Paint It All Red

“One person cannot change the world. But one person can strike terror into multitudes. —Robert Evans”
― S.T. Abby, Paint It All Red

“(I recommend researching Gilles de Rais if you’re low on nightmare fuel),”
― Jess Lourey, The Quarry Girls

“Historian Peter Vronsky hypothesizes that while several factors must align to make a murderer (genetics and frontal lobe injuries being two common ones), World War II was responsible for this golden age of serial killers a generation later.”
― Jess Lourey, The Quarry Girls

“Specifically, according to Vronsky, while all American soldiers who fought in WWII were trained to kill, a small contingent used the cover of state-sanctioned violence to also rape, torture, and collect human body parts as trophies. Though most returning GIs successfully reintegrated into society, some brought the brutality of war into their homes, abusing their families behind closed doors. That abuse, occurring as it did in a culture openly promoting war, created the fertile ground from which the first major crop of American serial killers would spring.”
― Jess Lourey, The Quarry Girls

“Mary had written in her journal, “Should I die, I ask that my stuffed animals go to my sister. If I am murdered, find my killer and see that justice is done.”
― Jess Lourey, The Quarry Girls

“When I played it, I straight-up left my body, the garage, planet Earth. It felt like I set myself on fire and put myself out at the exact same time.”
― Jess Lourey, The Quarry Girls

“I dedicate this book to the Muggles who got me here.”
― Tom Felton, Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard

“They pay no attention to a skinny fourteen-year-old boy with a pale complexion and bleached hair loitering in the vicinity, surrounded by his crew. The boy in question is yours truly and I’m genuinely sorry to report that we had trouble in mind.”
― Tom Felton, Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard