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“What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel”
― Francine Prose

“I would prefer not to.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“Amy said, "So, you're making a flamethrower?"
"Amy, we gotta be prepared. We don't know what we'll find in that place, but for all we know it could be the Devil himself."
"David, what possible good is that thing gonna do?"
"Oh, no, you didn't hear me. I said it's a flamethrower." Girls.”
― David Wong, John Dies at the End

“PEOPLE DIE.
This is the fact the world desperately hides from us from birth. Long after you find out the truth about sex and Santa Claus, this other myth endures, this one about how you’ll always get rescued at the last second and if not, your death will at least mean something and there’ll be somebody there to hold your hand and cry over you. All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you’ll die, and you’ll probably be alone.”
― David Wong, John Dies at the End

“you don't have to work 'em anymore. you don't have to walk the line with a rifle. all you got to do is get them into the system....once they're in, your boot is on their neck...Either way, we get ours and they stay in their rightful place. Same as it ever was.”
― Hari Kunzru, White Tears

“I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“It's my whole childhood, being sneered at by watery girls for a joke I didn't understand because I was reading books they could never understand”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

“Cooking anything in the least bit complicated came to seem futile, as silly as and perhaps sillier than spending money - on an outfit I would wear only once. The outfit, once worn, would find its way to a closet and later a trash heap. The meal....find its way to a toilet....for these reasons I subsisted mostly on Pop-Tarts”
― Juliet Lapidos, Talent

“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“My sense of humor will be a ray of sunshine if our plane death-spirals into the frozen tundra”
― Helen Ellis, Southern Lady Code: Essays

“First of all, accept that something is wrong with you. It’s a good start. Something has always been wrong with me, too. We’re in a club of sorts, the lunatic fringe who are proud to band together. There’s a joyous road to ruin out there, and if you let me be your garbage guru, I’ll teach you how to succeed in insanity and take control of your low self-esteem. Personality disorders are a terrible thing to waste.”
― John Waters, Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder

“I know I don't have any real wisdom. I don't have any wonderful ideas. I am lucky to have found a few nice people here and there”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“Ginny created wild, bizarre worlds. Her first submissions had been set on a planet called Druida- a place where women ruled and kept men in giant hamster cages”
― Grant Ginder, Honestly, We Meant Well

“She needed to get ready for bed, but first, she wanted to do nothing for a few moments. Just nothing. Nothing was such a luxury”
― Helen Hoang, The Bride Test

“An adult man possesses the power to enter your soul. A boy has no power, The power to hurt, maybe, but not the power to enter your soul”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde

“Nobody ever said we were put on this earth for our own entertainment”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Nothing about her was loud or distinct enough to draw attention; she kept to herself, and lived mainly in her own head. She found it disturbing that while she had been hiding in her mind, people were discussing and scrutinizing her”
― Reni K. Amayo, Daughters of Nri

“Some kind of grief has made him insane”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers

“you don't read the news" "yes, I do" "what happened yesterday?" "Sting wore white jeans and a puppy got stuck in a fan”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

“I know you are drunk on youth and immortality, but this is how you die”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“I don't know about you, but I always need a stiff drink after a visit with your parents”
― Sherry Thomas, A Study in Scarlet Women

“My doctors were fundamentally servants of the status quo. Their work was predicated on the assumption that the world is bearable, and anyone who finds it otherwise should be coaxed or medicated into acceptance.”
― Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

“Did anyone genuinely like anything? So much art was bad. I preferred the work of dead people. At least the dead weren't on Twitter”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

“Never pray to the gods that answer after dark.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“That's what love's all about, Kafka. You're the one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore