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“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel? Sometimes he makes us live.”
― Stephen King, Desperation

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

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.”
― Darren Shan

“If there is an after, I hope it's not dark. And I hope you can remember. I'd hate to wander around in the dark forever, not knowing who I was or what I was doin' here, or not even knowing that I'd ever had anything different.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works out in the end. They'll beat the bad guys and put things right and everything ends up cool.
In real life, vacuum cleaners kill spiders. If you cross a busy road without looking, you get whacked by a car. If you fall from a tree, you break some bones.
Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.
I just wanted to make that clear before I begun.”
― Darren Shan, Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare

“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

Or you don't.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch."

- Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)”
― Darren Shan, Trials of Death

“Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Conor held tightly onto his mother.
And by doing so, he could finally let her go.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“You thought I was a werewolf?" Dervish asks.
"Yes" I answer hollowly.
"You ass.”
― Darren Shan, Lord Loss

“Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care. ”
― Darren Shan, Lord Loss

“You should take more pride in your appearance,” I tell him. “You'll never attract girls with an ugly mug like that.”
― Darren Shan, Lord Loss

“Maybe you're going insane."
"Maybe," agreed Kernel.
"I was joking."
"I wasn't.”
― Darren Shan, Wolf Island

“Stick it up your crack, you warped son of a mutant b*tch!”
― Darren Shan, Lord Loss

“Even in death may you triumphant”
― Darren Shan

“But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.”
― Darren Shan, Slawter

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.
It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.
It's not a weakness.
It's your best strength.”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

“Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Usually when a man calls a woman a bitch," a voice calls over from a cart pulling up near us at the edge of camp,"its because she's doing something right.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

“It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

“Faith with proof is no faith at all.”
― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

“But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in.”
― Darren Shan, Sons of Destiny

“That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.”
― Darren Shan, Sons of Destiny

“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep