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“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.”
― Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

“In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?”
― Anne Rice

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet black bough.”
― Ezra Pound

“She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
― Mark Twain

“But sweetie, nothing says I love you like an erection.”
― Ethan Day, Life in Fusion

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.”
― Art Spiegelman

“She told me about the cop. And the movie star, and the construction worker. You're not having a life Michael, you're fucking the Village People one at a time”
― Armistead Maupin, Further Tales of the City

“Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.”
― Marilyn Manson

“You're my home. I will find you.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Special Forces - Soldiers

“Demon. Gremlin. Poltergeist. Ghost. Phantom. Spirit. Shadow. Ghoul. Devil. People are afraid of them, so they relegate their existence to stories, volumes of books that can be closed and put on the shelf or left behind at a bed and breakfast; they clench their eyes shut, so they will see no evil. But trust me when I tell you that the zebra is real. Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“When a dog dies, his soul is released to run until he is ready to be reborn”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“My soul has learned what it came to learn, and all the other things are just things. We can’t have everything we want. Sometimes, we simply have to believe.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Let’s go now.” He extended his hand to help me get up. I grabbed it and, turning on my side facing the wall away from him to prevent him from seeing me, I asked, “Must we?” This was the closest I would ever come to saying, Stay. Just stay with me.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, that it must be my lot in life to be taught that lesson over and over again.”
― Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train

“My entire life has felt like chance. Random moments of loss and connection. This is the first one that feels, instead, like fate.”
― Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train

“So I am learning to pretend, to smile and nod, to display empathy I do not feel. I am learning to pass, to look like everyone else, even though I feel broken inside.”
― Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train

“The image of God I was raised with was this: God is an angry bastard with a killer surveillance system who had to send his little boy (and he only had one) to suffer and die because I was bad. But the good news was that if I believed this story and then tried really hard to be good, when I died I would go to heaven, where I would live in a golden gated community with God and all the other people who believed and did the same things as I did.....this type of thinking portrays God as just as mean and selfish as we are, which feels like it has a lot more to do with our own greed and spite than it has to do with God.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint