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  • #1
    Fitz-James O'Brien
    “We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds.”
    Fitz-James O'Brien, Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M.R. James, Charles Dickens and Others

  • #2
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
    Edgar Allen Poe

  • #3
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.

    Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.
    At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

  • #4
    Bram Stoker
    “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
    Bram Stoker

  • #5
    Jim  Butcher
    “When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
    Jim Butcher

  • #6
    Dean Koontz
    “Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”
    Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing

  • #7
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  • #8
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • #9
    Gregory Maguire
    “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
    Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

  • #10
    Justin Alcala
    “A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing.”
    Justin Alcala

  • #10
    Justin Alcala
    “Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place.”
    Justin Alcala

  • #11
    Justin Alcala
    “Never give your opinion on someone's writing unless they ask sincerely, and never ask for someone's opinion unless you're sincere.”
    Justin Alcala

  • #12
    Francis Bacon
    “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
    Francis Bacon

  • #14
    Bram Stoker
    “We learn from failure, not from success!”
    Bram Stoker, Dracula

  • #15
    Bram Stoker
    “Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.”
    Bram Stoker, Dracula

  • #16
    Bram Stoker
    “Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”
    Bram Stoker, Dracula

  • #17
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “And all I loved, I loved alone.”
    Edgar Allen Poe

  • #18
    Jim  Butcher
    “Are you always a smartass?'

    Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
    Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

  • #19
    Jim  Butcher
    “Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
    Jim Butcher, Storm Front

  • #20
    Jim  Butcher
    “Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
    Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

  • #21
    Jim  Butcher
    “Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.”
    Jim Butcher, Vignette

  • #22
    Dean Koontz
    “Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.”
    Dean Koontz, False Memory

  • #23
    Dean Koontz
    “Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.”
    Dean Koontz

  • #24
    Justin Alcala
    “The best horror novels open up, "It was beautiful summer day and the smell of flowers emanated throughout the air.”
    Justin Alcala

  • #25
    Justin Alcala
    “Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?”
    Justin Alcala

  • #26
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • #27
    Justin Alcala
    “I don't remember ever signing up for weird. It just sort of happened.”
    Justin Alcala

  • #28
    Robert Fagles
    “The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.”
    Robert Fagles

  • #29
    “There is something deep deceptive in the reality.”
    Alexandar Tomov
    tags: 2014

  • #30
    Justin Alcala
    “We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.”
    Justin Alcala



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