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“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”
― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“When you want to feel better, call something a piece of shit. It usually works.”
― Stephen King, Revival

“Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know.”
― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

“No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.”
― They Might Be Giants

“He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts”
― Stephen King, It

“She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

“Kids and disease are the gateway to faith.”
― Jim Gaffigan

“One must be without error out here. Walk in single file. Work quietly. Pack an extra number 2 pencil. Make no mistakes. But you are human and you will make mistakes. You will misjudge. You will yell. You will drink too much. You will hang out with people you shouldn’t. Not all of us can always be Jackie Robinson—not even Jackie Robinson was always Jackie Robinson.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“He dug with a kind of fury, relishing the manual work, glorying in the non-magic of it, for every drop of his sweat and every blister felt like a gift to the elf who had saved their lives.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Monsters don't dress like monsters; they dress like humans. Even stranger, they rarely know they're the monsters.”
― Dennis Lehane, Since We Fell

“I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker.”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

“You had to know when it made sense to try to untangle something and when to just cut the motherfucker loose.”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

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

“Shawn's dead. So strange to say. So sad. But I guess not surprising, which I guess is even stranger, and even sadder.”
― Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down

“It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“The things you love the most will one day hurt you the worst.”
― Nathan Hill, The Nix

“Any problem you face in a video game or in life is one of four things: an enemy, obstacle, puzzle, or trap. That’s it. Everyone you meet in life is one of those four things.”
― Nathan Hill, The Nix

“He’s like the most dangerous species of American there is: heterosexual white male who didn’t get what he wanted.”
― Nathan Hill, The Nix

“The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”
― Stephen King, The Shining