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

“Then he stared down at the twinkling lights and sobbed, "All my stars fell out of the sky.”
― Belinda Bauer, The Beautiful Dead

“Death wants his Maiden”
― Belinda Bauer, The Beautiful Dead

“Hey, when’s your birthday?” “You going to buy me something?” “Easy there.” “Coming up, actually,” I say. “So’s mine.” “November eleventh.” She gawks. “That’s my birthday, too.” “You’re kidding.” “I am not. Eleven eleven.” I lift my glass. “To eleven eleven.” We toast.”
― A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window

“Double Indemnity, Gaslight, Saboteur, The Big Clock . . . We lived in monochrome those nights. For me, it was a chance to revisit old friends; for Ed, it was an opportunity to make new ones. And we’d make lists. The Thin Man franchise, ranked from best (the original) to worst (Song of the Thin Man). Top movies from the bumper crop of 1944. Joseph Cotten’s finest moments. I can do lists on my own, of course. For instance: best Hitchcock films not made by Hitchcock. Here we go: Le Boucher, the early Claude Chabrol that Hitch, according to lore, wished he’d directed. Dark Passage, with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall—a San Francisco valentine, all velveteen with fog, and antecedent to any movie in which a character goes under the knife to disguise himself. Niagara, starring Marilyn Monroe; Charade, starring Audrey Hepburn; Sudden Fear!, starring Joan Crawford’s eyebrows. Wait Until Dark: Hepburn again, a blind woman stranded in her basement apartment. I’d go berserk in a basement apartment.”
― A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window

“best Hitchcock films not made by Hitchcock. Here we go: Le Boucher, the early Claude Chabrol that Hitch, according to lore, wished he’d directed. Dark Passage, with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall—a San Francisco valentine, all velveteen with fog, and antecedent to any movie in which a character goes under the knife to disguise himself. Niagara, starring Marilyn Monroe; Charade, starring Audrey Hepburn; Sudden Fear!, starring Joan Crawford’s eyebrows. Wait Until Dark: Hepburn again, a blind woman stranded in her basement apartment. I’d go berserk in a basement apartment.”
― A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window

“She’s come undone. That was a book, I believe.”
― A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window

“The dam of my eyes broke, and tears flooded the land.”
― James Sallis, Ghost of a Flea

“the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“To tell the truth, I rather enjoy the mystery. I will let it remain impenetrable for the time being.”
― Damian Murphy, Wound of Wounds

“Time is the element in which we exist... We are either borne along by it or drowned in it.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Marya

“Just tell your story. Pretty much all memory is fiction and heavily edited. So just keep going.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“The coma ward was boring yet difficult. Like golf.”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker

“Everybody else possessed the key to popularity and happiness, and his clumsy attempts to find his own key always ended with other children looking at him funny, or calling him names.”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker

“There are worse things than dying."
"Really?" said Meg.
"Of course," said the tech. "Living badly.”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker

“You're different, you know."
"Only different from you," he said. "Not different from me.”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker

“when I am feeling
low
all i have to do is
watch my cats
and my
courage
returns”
― Charles Bukowski

“Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.”
― Charles Bukowski, On Cats

“The cat is the beautiful devil.”
― Charles Bukowski, On Cats

“is that death
stalking me
now?

no, it’s only my cat,
this
time.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviours.”
― Charles Bukowski

“two in the morning, and this time she was home. She answered the door still half asleep, wearing yoga pants and an oversized Ohio State sweatshirt. Her hair was pulled back, tucked beneath a scarf with a red-and-white gingham pattern. She must have been expecting someone else—a boyfriend, perhaps, or possibly even one of them—because it took her a moment to recognize”
― Jason Blum, The Blumhouse Book of Nightmares: The Haunted City