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#1

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
― Stephen King

tags: horror, vampire

2710 likes

#2

“This thing of darkness I
Acknowledge mine.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

203 likes

#3

“Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

tags: death

73 likes

#4

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

31523 likes

#5

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

9524 likes

#6

“Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: fear, speaking, thoughts, thus-spoke-zarathustra

42 likes

#7

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss

tags: depression, pain, trauma

5257 likes

#8

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

tags: vulnerability

1902 likes

#9

“Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.”
― Simone Elkeles, How to Ruin Your Boyfriend's Reputation

tags: happiness, noah, truth, wisdom

407 likes

#10

“I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

682 likes

#11

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

tags: books

6774 likes

#12

“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

89104 likes

#13

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

23456 likes

#14

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: books, castle, self

4145 likes

#15

“Nothing made me happen. I happened.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

367 likes

#16

“Salt. Wound. Together at last.”
― Maureen Johnson, 13 Little Blue Envelopes

tags: insult-to-injury

102 likes

#17

“Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

89 likes

#18

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why

5819 likes

#19

“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

tags: hope, hopelessness, magic

3108 likes

#20

“He had the look of an atheist who’d just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill.”
― Karen Chance, Claimed by Shadow

tags: cassie, pritkin, pythia

101 likes

#21

“The problem with alienating, self-destructive behavior is people get it into their heads it’s a cry for help. It wasn’t.”
― Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be

tags: self-destructive-behavior

125 likes

#22

“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

2925 likes

#23

“...if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

268 likes

#24

“I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.”
― Amy Tan, Saving Fish from Drowning

tags: self-delusion

261 likes

#25

“Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness. ”
― Darren Shan, Sons of Destiny

332 likes

#26

“It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.”
― Darren Shan, The Lake of Souls

135 likes

#27

“It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

tags: loss

246 likes

#28

“You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

4299 likes

#29

“ If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don't want to cry anymore, you don't listen to that song anymore.
But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

1163 likes

#30

“I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

tags: inspirational-attitude

345 likes

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