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  • #1
    David  Wong
    “And watch out for Molly. See if she does anything unusual. There’s something I don’t trust about the way she exploded and then came back from the dead like that.”
    David Wong, John Dies at the End

  • #2
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #3
    Drew Magary
    “Go to sleep, Crab."
    "I don't sleep. I'm a crab. I only lie dormant."
    "Why don't you sleep?"
    "Because things will kill me if I do. I need to be in a state of constant awareness. Even if you think I'm sleeping, I'm not. I'm saving my energy so that I can fuck you up. Heads up 24/7.”
    Drew Magary

  • #4
    Adam Gidwitz
    “You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide.
    No guide, that is, but courage”
    Adam Gidwitz, A Tale Dark & Grimm

  • #5
    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #6
    Ben Jonson
    “Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
    You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
    Best, while you have it, use your breath;
    There is no drinking after death.”
    Ben Jonson

  • #7
    Sarah J. Maas
    “I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
    I was a survivor, and I was strong.
    I would not be weak, or helpless again
    I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #8
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #9
    Fannie Flagg
    “Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
    Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

  • #10
    Amy Hempel
    “I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
    Amy Hempel

  • #11
    Stephen  King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    Stephen King

  • #12
    Stephen  King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #13
    Mary Leakey
    “Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
    Mary Leakey

  • #14
    Lydia Maria Child
    “Over the river and through the wood
    To grandfather's house we go”
    Lydia Maria Francis Child

  • #15
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #16
    Clive Barker
    “[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.”
    Clive Barker

  • #17
    Clive Barker
    “No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.”
    Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

  • #18
    Clive Barker
    “It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that
    phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.”
    Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Volume Two

  • #19
    Clive Barker
    “You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.”
    Clive Barker

  • #20
    Clive Barker
    “A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.”
    Clive Barker, Imajica

  • #21
    Ruth Reichl
    “Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
    Ruth Reichl

  • #22
    David  Wong
    “Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.”
    David Wong, John Dies at the End

  • #23
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #24
    If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
    “If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
    Chinua Achebe

  • #25
    E.E. Cummings
    “To be nobody but
    yourself in a world
    which is doing its best day and night to make you like
    everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
    which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #26
    E.E. Cummings
    “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
    I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
    I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
    and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

    here is the deepest secret nobody knows
    (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
    higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
    and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

    I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #27
    It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
    “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #28
    Isabel Allende
    “The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
    Isabel Allende

  • #29
    David  Wong
    “Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.”
    David Wong, John Dies at the End

  • #30
    David  Wong
    “Fred said, “Man, I think he’s gonna make a fuckin’ suit of human skin, using the best parts from each of us.”
    “Holy crap,” said John. “He’ll be gorgeous.”
    David Wong, John Dies at the End



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