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“To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in societyâ€� and our society’s station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff tooâ€� but there’s always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness.”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye

“The most introspective of hearts tends to be the most sentimental. We cling to the smallest moments from our past because we fear that emotion will never come our way again.”
― Shannon Alder

“Self is a sea boundless and measureless.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“She finally had to admit she missed Hank. Hank and his beautiful dog face. Faithful hank, who was always by her side without grievance or judgement.Hank, who reminded her when it was time to eat and never let her sleep in.”
― Alyssa Hall, And Then I Heard the Quiet

“There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behavior and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity. These are frequently artists and performers, adventurers and wide-life devotees.
Then there are those who feel their own strangeness and are terrified by it. They struggle toward normalcy. They suffer to exactly that degree that they are unable to appear normal to others, or to convince themselves that their aberration does not exist. These are true freaks, who appear, almost always, conventional and dull.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

“I spin around on the swivel chair and look up at the ceiling; Oliver being Oliver being Oliver being Oliver. I am suddenly aware of the separation between my-actual-self and myself-as-seen-by-others. Who would win in an arm wrestle? Who is better-looking? Who has the higher IQ?”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”
― Neil Gaiman

“This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Always try coercing others proves one doesn't want to change himself.
(Suka maksain pendapat adalah bukti seseorang tak siap berubah).”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Have you ever heard
A cold sun weeping
On the edge of
an uncreated universeâ€�?”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu

“Sometimes I feel as if there's an explanation to my life that continues to escape me; that I've missed something noble, something sublime; that in some way I have cheated myself...life is so strange, so harsh.”
― Will Weaver, A Gravestone Made of Wheat

“The problem is, we have too many cowardly, spineless, selfish people that would sacrifice their children’s future just to avoid the sacrifice love requires of them in the present. And they expect their children to respect them for that? Do they think we’re idiots just because we’re young?”
― Darryl Steven Markowitz, The Sacrificial Wood

“Divine does not tempt us to see what's in our hearts, it tempts us so we could see what's in our hearts.”
― Aleksandra Ninkovic, Write like no one is reading

“Live your epitaph”
― Zoe Weil, Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life

“Assim, quantas vezes, desperto e abandonado, não entrei pela noite dentro, aguardando não bem a madrugada nem o meu sono final, mas o vazio absoluto de um nunca mais para o passado e para o futuro.”
― Vergílio Ferreira

“We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“When you're a demigod, you worry a lot about staying alive. You hardly ever think about old age. I'd been so focused on just making it out of high school, becoming an adult... but maybe that wasn't the ultimate goal. Getting old might be scary and difficult. It involved things I didn't wanna think about, like arthritis and varicose veins and hearing aids. But if you grew older with the people you loved, wasn't that better than any other alternative?”
― Rick Riordan, The Chalice of the Gods

“While she lay there with these old worn thoughts coming obediently into her mind, called there by habit and the familiar quiet of early morning, she was aware that at the back of her mind there was another thought that was not at all stale, but so fresh that it was nearly a feeling, with all a feeling's delicious power to kill thought.”
― Stella Gibbons, Nightingale Wood

“She wrote that she, too, always felt an outsider "...even to myself.”
― Will Weaver

“Where do thoughts come from, Father?â€�
King Mafferan looked deeply into his twelve-year-old eyes. “While I may not be sure all thoughts are my own, I am sure when I own them.”
― Darryl Steven Markowitz, Call Of The Tree

“My daughter, people are only used to seeing the glorified in a story, because a story is only a tiny, tiny piece of a person’s life. Legends, sacred writings, they’re all like that. But I assure you, dear child, every one of those people up there on that wall felt like, thought like, and suffered like you!”
― Darryl Steven Markowitz, The Sacrificial Wood

“He told me to call him Dazar Frihet. He said that our days are freedom. All of these days, the ones our feet carry us through, any one of them we can choose to be free, we just have to be willing to make it happen. He was such a sad young man, but he wasn’t sad for himself, he was the freest person I ever knew. No, he was sad for all the people he saw who were never free. All the people walking around thinking they were free, but were bonded to so many possessions and responsibilities, so much dispassion and anger, that freedom had become a mirage, like a mythical figure or a god, something they worshiped and followed, but never truly understood.”
― Daniel J. Rice, THIS SIDE OF A WILDERNESS: A Novel

“All these matters absorbed his mind, drawing the world inside, into the large, chaotic space that each of us carries within like an invisible piece of luggage that we drag after us all our lives, without knowing why. Our true self.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

“...Nyla was right in predicting that, for me, life would go on into old age and my promise has been kept too, for every now and then over the years, the ghosts have slipped out from the past and I have kept brief company with my friends of long ago.”
― Edward Beauclerk Maurice, The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic

“Carnal Carnival Mirror by Stewart Stafford

In a stalker's heckle, a conjoined choice;
Dead end track or a charlatan voice?
Life's a twisted, poised inquisitor,
With a human stopgap answer visitor.

Blank slates skimmed in stony throe,
Viscous channels tempt furlough,
Wrecks of the wild and sentient sea,
Begging a craven harbour's charity.

Hear the liar's mantra chant;
That siren's song will gallivant;
Gossip's billow finds our sails;
Cohesion falters, verity bewails.

Hypocrites don suits they see fit,
Self-fulfilling phallusies they commit.
Our rulers shame, an unmasked brute,
Leaves fall down from prophecy's youth.

© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I don’t know. Perhaps that’s the nostalgia in me talking. To think that everything that I’ve built here, could possibly be undone by one man. It’s unconscionable. To lose everything as a child only to gain so much and lose it all again before I die. Sadly, there’s no greater killer of men in this world than ambition.”
― Sloane Swinton, Isiginali

“Sadly, there’s no greater killer of men in this world than ambition.”
― Sloane Swinton, Isiginali

“All the time. Every day. Every second, a woman dies because of a man, and we still find it in ourselves to love and trust them somehow, to share our flesh with them in tangled sheets.”
― S.C. Black, Horseman: a Novella

“I have in me
A heart that hurts me,
A desire that kills me,
A hand that destroys me,
A fire that burns me,
A dream that haunts me,
And a longing that buries me alive”
― Abdullah Khan, I know you from a dream

“Without warning, all the tears I’ve been holding back are pouring out of me, hot and fast . . . It’s like I’ve taken all my sadness and wrapped it up in a package inside of me because I don’t deserve to grieve. But I can’t keep that package together anymore. The strings that bound it are fraying and snapping, and it’s all spilling out.”
― Natalie C. Anderson, Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday