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“No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it’s lying there naked, pure, unsullied by facts.”
― Christopher Moore, Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

“killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.”
― Christopher Moore, Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

“Ninety-five percent of all the species that have ever existed are now extinct, so don’t look so goddamn smug. —GERARD RYDER”
― Christopher Moore, Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

“Evolution doesn’t really have a destination. It’s just dicking around with possibilities.”
― Christopher Moore, Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

“Being a bitch could be a survival technique. They get respect. There was no honor in people thinking you were a slut.”
― Penelope Douglas, Bully

“It’s the moment when you know that you can have what you want if you’re only brave enough to say so. It’s a split second when everything can change, but you pussy out because you’re too afraid to risk the rejection.”
― Penelope Douglas, Until You

“some battles aren’t fought with fists, some are fought by just standing up and facing it, facing the truth, learning that what others have done to you doesn’t have to make you who are you. Only you can do that—you have the power to say “enough” and walk away, truly walk away.”
― Marie Hall, A Moment

“Do you know how it feels to resign yourself to your fate? It is almost welcome. There was to be no more pain, no more fear, no more longing. It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Girl You Left Behind

“Nothing left to chance.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“Nothing is more creative … nor destructive … than a brilliant mind with a purpose.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“the future wasn’t something you planned for; it was something that just happened, like your car spinning out on some black ice and hitting a snowbank, or the telephone ringing with bad news in the middle of the night.”
― Wendy Lawless, Chanel Bonfire

“Pain is pain, long or short; it’s still felt, still suffered,”
― Donna Fletcher, Bound to a Warrior

“Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out? Do you want to know what is there or live in the dark delusion that this commercial world insists we remain sealed inside like blind caterpillars in an eternal cocoon? Will you curl up with your eyes closed and die? Or can you fight your way out of it and fly?”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“People like to think on marriage or love as something that weighs you down. Holds you back. Marriage is an anchor, but in the best ways it can be said.”
― Lauren Dane, Once and Again

“Love takes work. Oh sure, you can love someone without trying. But when things get rough, if you don’t love someone right down to your toes, it’s way too easy to up and leave when they muck things up.”
― Lauren Dane, Once and Again

“Insane was letting an opportunity pass you by. Insane was debating so long over what you wanted that it disappeared.”
― Erin McCarthy, Jacked Up

“To live in the city of crowds and traffic and constant noise, to be always striving, to be in the ceaseless competition for money and status and power, perhaps distracted the mind until it could no longer see—and forgot—the all that is. Or maybe, because of the pace and pressure of that life, sanity depended on blinding oneself to the manifold miracles, astonishments, wonders, and enigmas that comprised the true world.”
― Dean Koontz, Innocence

“We live in biological time, and we have beginnings, middles, and ends.”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights

“I haven’t the slightest interest in being happy. I prefer to live life passionately, which is dangerous because you never know what might happen next.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“When all my power is stripped away, I still have choices. Like choosing not to give a shit. That’s a very powerful choice when a person thinks she has no power.”
― Anonymous

“happiness is simply collecting and remembering all the good moments in your life,”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, Very Bad Things

“History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are the laws of nature and balance. And if we look at the darkness growing in the world today, we have to realize that this means there is equal light growing.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“Well-directed thought is a learned skill. To manifest an intention requires laserlike focus, full sensory visualization, and a profound belief.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“contradiction with this the majority of medical writers hardly admit that the dream is a psychical phenomenon at all. According to them dreams are provoked and initiated exclusively by stimuli proceeding from the senses or the body, which either reach the sleeper from without or are accidental disturbances of his internal organs.”
― Sigmund Freud, Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

“The dream is to be regarded, says Binz, "as a physical process always useless, frequently morbid.”
― Sigmund Freud, Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

“Because the birdsong might be pretty, But it’s not for you they sing, And if you think my winter is too cold, You don’t deserve my spring.” Erin Hanson”
― L.J. Shen, Ruckus

“as the junkies junk as the alkies drink as the whores whore as the killers kill the albatross blinks its eyes the weather stays mostly the same.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense