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“Change layover the stairs and the kitchen and the garden like fog.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“They are the children of the strangers,I told her. They have no faces. They have eyes.
Pretend they are birds. They cant see us. They don't know it yet. they don't want to believe it, but they wont ever see us again.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“In the better light of the living room he noticed with interest that there actually was dust in the creases of her face.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“There was the usual boiled-cabbage smell, common to the whole building. but it was shot through by a sharper reek of sweat, which one knew this at the first sniff, though it was hard to say how was the sweat of some person not present at the moment.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“His powers of sweating were extraordinary.”
― George Orwell, 1984 (Novel)

“Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard”
― Charles Bukowski

“if that guy dies, or doesn’t die—what does it matter? None of it is a big deal. None of it, at all. What matters doesn’t exist.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, The Gun

“water sleeps, and enemy is sleepless.’ Who”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“what good are peasants without a leader?”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and how dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems

“Let' em learn or let' em die”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“I broke that town in half like a wooden match.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“For a girl, appearance can be a powerful form of oppression. No matter how intelligent a girl may be, no matter her many talents, these attributes are not easily discerned. Brains and talent will never stand up against a girl who is clearly physically attractive.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Grotesque

“If people can’t stand being alone, they have no choice but to die.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Grotesque

“was the first time I noticed that the men who embrace me, every single one of them, end up with an expression of emptiness when they are done, as if they have lost something. Maybe that is why I am always in search of a new man. Maybe that is why I am now a prostitute.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Grotesque

“In this world there are people who prefer beauty after it’s gone away or the dregs of a prosperity depleted.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Grotesque

“Winning is beauty. It is like life itself.”
― Clive Barker, The Damnation Game

“Once you conceded defeat, life was a feather bed. In”
― Clive Barker, The Damnation Game

“it did seem that the thing we are most proud of and the thing we are most ashamed of are but the front and back of the same coin. They torture and thrill all at once.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Grotesque

“No soul, but a sense of humor. There was that; a kind of dancing, lunatic glee.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“Lie, copulate, and die.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief ...”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North

“Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North

“A body always tells the truth, that’s why it’s usually depressing and disgusting to look at.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“We're even more dazed than usual. Here we sit, empty, bewildered, contented. We have nothing to talk about, because nothing happens to us anymore, we're too poor, maybe life is sick of us. Why not?”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“He couldn't have explained this misery of his, it exceeded his education.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts. Invoking posterity is like making speeches to worms.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“YOU’VE BEEN STUPID. GOD MAY LOVE STUPIDITY; I DO NOT.”
― Stephen King, The Stand