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“She had been sharing a house with him for a week, and he had not once flirted with her. He had worked with her, asked her opinion, slapped her on the knuckles figuratively speaking when she was on the wrong track, and acknowledged that she was right when she corrected him. Dammit, he had treated her like a human being.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

“Cunt again? It was odd how men like Suggs used that word to demean women when it was the only part of a woman they valued.”
― George R. R. Martin

“The English language needs a word for that feeling you get when you badly need help, but there is no one you can call because you're not popular enough to have friends, not rich enough to have employees, and not powerful enough to have lackeys. It is a very distinct cocktail of impotence, loneliness and a sudden stark assessment of your non-worth to society? Enturdment?”
― David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders

“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

“I can't wait till I have grandchildren. When I was younger, I had to walk to the rim of a crater. Uphill! In an EVA suit! On Mars, ya little shit! Ya hear me? Mars!”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Big dick energy is gender-neutral”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“This is a story. It can’t hurt you anymore”
― Mira Grant, Overgrowth

“They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects