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If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out — Alice Hoffman, Incantation
Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggno — Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? — Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H. — Dan Savage, Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America
They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me. — Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
Women have always been spies. — Harriet Rubin, The Princessa: Machiavelli For Women
In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands — Heinrich von Kleist, Kleist: Selected Writings
One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flas — Michael Grant, Gone
When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery — Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. — Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
I was about thirteen when I started letting boys feel me up. — Rebbecca Ray, Pure
On top of everything else, Boobie's got the clap. — Adam Rapp, 33 Snowfish
Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. — Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs. — Lynda Barry, Cruddy
On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide—it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese — Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
There once was a woman named Story Easton who couldn't decide if she should kill herself, or eat a double cheeseburger. — Elizabeth Leiknes, The Understory
Deep down, Story Easton knew what would happen if she attempted to off herself—she would fail It was a matter of probabi — Elizabeth Leiknes, The Understory
If you want vampires and werewolves, faeries, fallen angels or zombies, you won't find them here. I know a real-life mon — Stephanie Lawton, Want
All I was trying to do when they caught me was bury my mother in an unmarked grave. — S. L. Viehl