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#1

“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
― D.H. Lawrence

tags: broken-heart, d-h-lawrence, love, pomegranate

#2

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness

15745 likes

#3

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

9219 likes

#4

“Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

tags: fear

886 likes

#5

“Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: fight-club, narrator, palahniuk

749 likes

#6

“Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

362 likes

#7

“Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

347 likes

#8

“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

938 likes

#9

“I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

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#10

“Dr. Fell, do you believe a man could become so obsessed with a woman, from a single encounter?
Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her and find nourishment in the very sight of her? I think so. But would she see through the bars of his plight and ache for him?”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

96 likes

#11

“The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

127 likes

#12

“I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

tags: mary-malone, morality

1074 likes

#13

“Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.”
― Philip Pullman

243 likes

#14

“In that book which is my memory,
On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,
Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.”
― Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova

1067 likes

#15

“Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three

tags: blood, equality, horror, reading

762 likes

#16

“[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.”
― Clive Barker

tags: chaos, horror, illusion, oblivion, reality, truth

419 likes

#17

“She had opened a door... and now she was walking with demons. And at the end of her travels, she would have her revenge... Pain had made a sadist of her.”
― Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

81 likes

#18

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

5539 likes

#19

“The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

653 likes

#20

“It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned

tags: the-vampire-chronicles

328 likes

#21

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

31189 likes

#22

“To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock

238 likes

#23

“Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock

150 likes

#24

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

3540 likes

#25

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

6608 likes

#26

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin

tags: books, reading

2320 likes

#27

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

tags: falling-apart, giving-in

11782 likes

#28

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

5739 likes

#29

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
― Stephen King

2777 likes

#30

“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

tags: god, humor

2028 likes

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