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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.”
― Frank Herbert, The Green Brain

“Or how he was once found on the well regarded Rabbi's front lawn, bound in white string, and said he tied one around his finger to remember something terribly important, and fearing he would forget the index finger, he tied a string around his pinky, and then one from waist to neck, and fearing he would forget this one, he tied a string from ear to tooth to scrotum heel, and used his body to remember his body, but in the end could only remember the string. Is this someone to trust for a story?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“Emotions are the curse of logic.”
― Frank Herbert, The Green Brain

“A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have, but very painful to the lips.”
― Frank Herbert, The Green Brain

“When you empty out the vessel, you also empty out all the crap floating around in there. The additives. The impurities. It sure feels good. It's a whole body, whole-minded enema.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.”
― Anne Rice, Servant of the Bones

“First and foremost, there is one God, and his name does not matter. Yahweh, Ahuramazda, Zeus, Aten, it does not matter at all.”
― Anne Rice, Servant of the Bones

“You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key

“It was all witches and pitchforks. God or the devil.”
― Karin Cox , Cruxim

“The patterns we perceive are determined by the stories we want to believe.”
― John Verndon

“The shadows of Ina-Karekh are the place where nightmares dwell, but not their source. Never forget: the shadowlands are not elsewhere. We create them. They are within.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Killing Moon

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
― Stephen King, It

“That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.”
― Stephen King

“He was not afraid to die with her, by fire or any other way - only to live without her.”
― Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross

“If you leave, you might as well take my heart with you. I won't need it anymore, because it won't bother to beat without you.”
― C.A. Jonelle, Zaryk

“Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.

(This is a reference to an E.E. Cummings poem within the author's work)”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I am self-educated from genre books.”
― Charlaine Harris

“You're like a man who loves nothing better than a thick steak but wouldn't last an hour in a slaughterhouse.”
― Stephen King

“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“The best thing to do is grieve for the people you loved & lost, and then welcome and love the new people life puts in front of you.”
― Mark Sullivan

“Death doesn't ever look at shoulda, though, does it? Death looks at nothing. It just does what it's meant to do.”
― Susan Meissner, As Bright as Heaven