Roger Lawrence

“But your theory of radical feminization and authoritarian revolt in the work of Jane Austen—with reference to your own childhood feelings—is untouchable.”
― Michael Crichton, State of Fear

“Besides, he thought, everything kills everything else in some way. Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive. The boy keeps me alive, he thought. I must not deceive myself too much.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Remember: deception corrodes from the inside out. You don’t escape the lie—you become it.”
― Steve Goldsmith, Styx & Stonez: A Satirical Descent Through the Nine Circles

“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain. Why didn’t you show the diary to me, or your mother? A suspicious object like that, it was clearly full of Dark Magic —”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter: The Complete Collection