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“You can never tell how genes ricochet.”
― Cynthia Ozick, Foreign Bodies

“Survival was a breeze that touched some and not others. Neither hope nor hopelessness had anything to do with it.”
― Denis Johnson

“It was one of those subjects to which everything that slithers across your brain seems relevant. I find this to be true of most topics.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“Ambassadors. Trade. Diplomacy. These subjects make me feel that I have fallen into a swamp and am breathing mud. I will go to the mansion and eavesdrop on the servants.”
― Elsa Hart, Jade Dragon Mountain

“I went along agreeably until all that was left was agreeability.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Crime Scene

“Without our flaws we would be like a well-oiled machine, and our actions and thoughts could be predicted through simulation, if we only had sufficient processing power. That will never happen. Our flaws are a variable outside the scope of such a calculation, and they drive us to great achievements or to utterly despicable deeds.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Himmelstrand

“His thoughts refuse to grow, because they have nowhere to take root.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Himmelstrand

“When there is emptiness all around us, and everything else has fallen away, it boils down to this and this alone: I have a life and you have a life, however different they may be. The question is: who has the power?”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Himmelstrand

“[F]or, living our lives, as our bodies live for us, we are not at all clockwork; we do not feel ourselves to be clockwork; each second is new to us, quicksilver and unexpected, undefined.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense

“In marriage, one plus one is more than the sum of two. But sometimes in a marriage, one plus one is less than the sum of two.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense

“How like science fiction our lives are, she thinks. The alternate universe in which, innocently, ignorantly, we continue to exist as we'd been, unaware that, in another universe, we'd have ceased to be.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense

“It is deflating to realize that you are not privileged over the mold in your showerhead.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense

“He has made a show of being a devoted family man but his life has been carefully arranged so that he spends as little time with his family as possible.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense