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  • #1
    Stephen  King
    “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
    Stephen King

  • #2
    Stephen  King
    “Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.”
    Stephen King, The Shining

  • #3
    Stephen  King
    “Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
    Stephen King

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    J.K. Rowling
    “He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #8
    Wesley Chu
    “Roen said, "I can't quit. I have rent, and a cat to support.”
    Wesley Chu, The Lives of Tao
    tags: cats

  • #9
    Jonathan  Dunne
    “Gonzo, the enlightened hippy-biker island god, was a hermit in every sense of the word; a hermit crab and this island was his shell.”
    Jonathan Dunne, Lighthouse Jive

  • #10
    Jonathan  Dunne
    “So how do you know she was a mermaid if you didn’t see her bottom half?”
    Jonathan Dunne, Lighthouse Jive

  • #11
    Douglas Adams
    “Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.”
    Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

  • #12
    Jonathan  Dunne
    “Lately, their love had been reduced to yellow emojis.”
    Jonathan Dunne, Lighthouse Jive

  • #13
    Jonathan  Dunne
    “Why can't people just be happy and live?”
    Jonathan Dunne, Lighthouse Jive

  • #14
    Jackie Collins
    “If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”
    Jackie Collins

  • #15
    Barbara Delinsky
    “When the truth emerges, it can’t be ignored. Nor will it wait.”
    Barbara Delinsky, Blueprints

  • #16
    Aldo Leopold
    “I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
    Aldo Leopold

  • #17
    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    Albert Camus

  • #18
    Roald Dahl
    “as though it had come to the top of the hill and gone over a precipice,”
    Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

  • #19
    Confucius
    “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
    Confucious

  • #20
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #21
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #22
    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    Mary Oliver

  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #24
    Ezra Pound
    “There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”
    Ezra Pound

  • #25
    Richard Matheson
    “Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.”
    Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

  • #26
    Patrick Ness
    “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

  • #27
    Patrick Ness
    “Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.”
    Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

  • #28
    John Irving
    “Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”
    John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

  • #29
    “Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
    Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein



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