He was sure that even to folks who lived a hundred years—as he hoped to do—it seemed like not much more than a summer afternoon.
—Stephen King, The Colorado Kid
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Magic—that’s just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn’t so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.
—Robert Bloch, Psycho
The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.
—Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.
—Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
The act of singing gives the most mundane words and phrases reverence and glory. You can make a shrine out of anything.
—Florence Welch, Useless Magic
In a country that doesn’t discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.
—Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Stupid people are dangerous.
—Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever women.
–Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street.
—Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
I desired to see new things. I desired to experience volumes.
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
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