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Marilynne Robinson
“The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light...It seems to me to be a metaphor for the human soul, the singular light within that great general light of existence.”
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

Douglas Adams
“Now," said Benjy mouse, "to business."
Ford and Zaphod clinked their glasses together.
"To business!" they said.
"I beg your pardon?" said Benjy.
Ford looked round.
"Sorry, I thought you were proposing a toast," he said.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

David Levithan
“Some people think mental illness is a matter of mood, a matter of personality. They think depression is simply a form of being sad, that OCD is a form of being uptight. They think the soul is sick, not the body. It is, they believe, something that you have some choice over.
I know how wrong that is.”
David Levithan, Every Day

David Levithan
“And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.”
David Levithan, Every Day

Todd Strasser
“Was it the weakness of a man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings?”
Todd Strasser

Stephen        King
“There aren’t just 2 kinds of people, good and bad, like I thought when I was a kid who got most of his ideas on how people act from TV. There are 3. The third type of people go along to get along, like Deputy F.W.S. Malkin told me to do. Those are the most people in the world and I think they are gray people. They will not hurt you (at least on purpose) but they won’t help you much, either. They will say do what you want and God help you.

I think in this world you have to help yourself.”
Stephen King, Billy Summers

Stephen        King
“He sipped his tea, brooded over the cup, then set it down and fixed me with those blue eyes again. He was old; they weren’t.”
Stephen King, Later

Kate DiCamillo
“But, reader, we must not forget that Kind Phillip loved the queen and that without her, he was lost. This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying.”
Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

H.E. Edgmon
“So, this isn’t going great, and so far I definitely don’t like these guys as much as I enjoyed hanging out with Paloma and Maritza—chaotic as the queens are—but it could be worse. They’re willing to entertain polite conversation, and we have some things in common. Like, they’re gay, we’re gay, they have twin fae babies, we have a little trash baby we found in the woods.”
H.E. Edgmon, The Fae Keeper

“Sürekli alıp satmak karlılık deÄŸil, duygusal tatmin yöntemidir ve buradan kar saÄŸlanmaz, ancak enerji tüketilir.”
Murat SaÄŸman

Dorothy B. Hughes
“Again she broke into galloping words, punctuated with Mahm Gittys, ending by raising her voice, “Pepita! Pepita!â€� with an epilogue which seemed to wash her hands of the whole subject.”
Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man

Dorothy B. Hughes
“It was factual and he accepted it.”
Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man