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“A decade or two on the rocks gives a person character. Although she’d never believe it, those lines in Gillian’s face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she’s gone through and what she’s survived and who exactly she is, deep inside.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“When they got here It would cast them, shrieking and insane, into the deadlights.”
― Stephen King, It

“the world loves a ghost, yet we like to take our ghosts vicariously, preferably in fiction. We'd rather see than be one.”
― Dorothy Scarborough, The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction

“Having adventures is never a waste of time,” she said. “Sitting on your butt is.”
― Richard Gleaves, Sleepy Hollow: Rise Headless and Ride

“One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.”
― Jane Austen, The Annotated Persuasion

“so, with smiles of most exquisite misery, and the laughing eye of utter despondency,”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. But”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“but why he should say one thing so positively, and mean another all the while, was most unaccountable! How were people, at that rate, to be understood?”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“My being charming…is not quite enough to induce me to marry. I must find other people charming - one other person at least.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“The world,” he said, “grows hourly more and more sceptical of all that lies beyond its own narrow radius; and our men of science foster the fatal tendency.

"The Phantom Coach”
― Amelia B. Edwards

“Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others.”
― Wildside Press, The Third Ghost Story Megapack

“joy is of all gifts the most divine.”
― M.R. James, The Second Ghost Story MEGAPACK®

“God never labels his gifts; He just puts them into our hands;”
― M.R. James, The Second Ghost Story MEGAPACK®

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Nameless City

“What is to be, will be," said Mrs. Rachel gloomily, "and what isn't to be happens sometimes.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars - 8 Books

“she never said anything that would hurt anyone's feelings—which may be a negative talent but is likewise a rare and enviable one.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars - 8 Books

“Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

“Shirking responsibilities is the curse of our modern life-the secret of all the unrest and discontent that is seething in the world”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

“There is somehow something extraordinarily alluring about the scent of old paper, and the feel of brittle pages.  It’s a gateway opening onto the past; it’s a hand stretching out from the long-ago to clasp yours.”
― Sarah Rayne, The Forgotten Manuscript and The Unknown Crime. Two short stories.

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft

“The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.”
― Stephen King