Logan Berrian > Logan's Quotes

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
― Stephen Roberts

“IF LIFE WAS A THING THAT MONEY COULD BUY .....THE RICH WOULD LIVE AND THE POOR WOULD DIE.”
― John H. Sibley

“I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze
I cannot get out, said the starling”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Ask yourself where you’re complicit in other people’s stories. If you like them, stay in those stories. If you don’t, don’t. You’re not bound to any of it, though remember that if you want to get rid of the bad aspects of something you’ll probably have to lose the good aspects, too.”
― Jason Louv, Hyperworlds, Underworlds

“The story of who you are, were, will be: you don’t have to accept any of this. If you want, bypass selective editing and let the whole thing go. All of it. Stay on the blank page as long as you want; then write a new story if you like. Just remember that you’ll have to write in roles for other people that they like if you want others to play along.”
― Jason Louv, Hyperworlds, Underworlds

“We are weighted with the outmoded dreams of dead men and dead systems, walking-corpse institutions and undead, blood-sucking ideologies long past their expiration date which yet haunt the planet, entrapping the joy of the living within the dead ribcage walls of their rotting, false order, and which direly need a stake through the heart simply because they are no longer relevant.”
― Jason Louv, Hyperworlds, Underworlds

“He listened to the occasional creak of Flora’s squeaky board, and noticed it sounded lonely. Or maybe that was just him.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, When I Found You

“We are always in a certain amount of pain. There is chafing somewhere, and if it isn’t in our body, then it’s in our mind. There’s an itch, all the time.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Little Star

“the simple fact of bearing a responsibility can be something that gives meaning to life.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Little Star

“If the line is long, sometimes I have to leave.” “Why?” “The horrific crush of humanity on my soul. Haven’t you ever felt it?”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“Nothing ruined working with animals like the need to work with people at the same time.”
― Ellen Datlow, The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Ten