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“God’s already pissed off. He has been for five thousand years, and He’s sick to the nucleus of His soul. He’s not going to show Himself—you’re not worth His time. God’s gone. He’s fuckin’ busy, man.”
— Edward Lee, Terra Insanus
Tagged: God, Soul
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
— Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
Tagged: Friend, Best Friends, Friendship, Life, Loneliness
“The noises started sometime in the night, during the hour when the moon was at its highest. Not screams, exactly. More like moans. Howls. Sounds I couldn’t put a name to. I lay in bed, wide awake, staring at the odd shapes the moonlight threw against the whitewashed walls. I couldn’t tell what type of creature he was working on in that blood red, windowless laboratory. I’d heard the panther make all types of howls and cries on the ship, but nothing like what came from that building.

Whatever it was, it was large.”
— Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter
Tagged: Horror, monsters
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Tagged: Friendship, Love, All Or Nothing
“Then the first Dead Hand pulled itself out of the mill race and turned towards him. It was dark, true dark now, but Sam could just make it out. It had been human once, but the magic that had brought it back to Life had twisted the body as if following a mad artist’s whim. Its arms trailed below its ankles, its head no longer sat upon a neck but sank into its should, and the mouth had split upwards, usurping the place that had once held a nose. There were more behind it, other twisted shapes.”
— Garth Nix, LIRAEL: Daughter of the Clayr (Old Kingdom)
Tagged: Horror, monster
“Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another 'What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .'”
— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Tagged: Friendship, Love, Absurdity
“The Thing cannot be described - there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order. A mountain walked or stumbled.

If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful.”
— H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Tagged: monster, Horror, creepy
“You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don’t haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds.”
— David Wong, John Dies at the End
Tagged: Fear, Haunted, creepy
“The zombie looks like a man, walks like a man, eats and otherwise functions fully, yet is devoid of the spark. It represents the nagging doubt that lays deep in the heart of even the most zealous believer: behind all of your pretty songs and stained glass, this is what you really are. Shambling meat. Our true fear of the zombie was never that its bite would turn us into one of them. Our fear is that we are already zombies.”
— David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It (John Dies at the End)
Tagged: zombies, humans, Fear
“No friendship is an accident.”
— O. Henry, Heart Of The West
Tagged: Friendship
“Nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How then am I mad? ”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Xist Classics)
Tagged: Nervous, Insanity
“The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
— Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Tagged: Insanity, humans
“The unreal is more powerful than the real because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. ”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Tagged: Illusion, Reality
“Huddled against the back wall were naked people, male and female, all trying to hide, shielding their faces with their hands. On the mattress lay a man with his legs gone to the hip and the stumps of them blackened and burnt. The smell was hideous.

Jesus, he whispered.

Then one by one they turned and blinked in the pitiful light. Help us, they whispered. Please help us.”
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Tagged: help, creepy, Horror
“She loved him. But he didn’t know how to love. He could talk about love. He could see love and feel love. But he couldn’t give love.
He could make love. But he couldn’t make promises.”
— G.G Renee Hill, The Beautiful Disruption
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving, romance, Heartbreak
“They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.”
— Gabrielle Zevin
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving, romance, Heartbreak
“Do you like me?’
No answer.
Silence bounced, fell off his tongue
and sat between us
and clogged my throat.
It slaughtered my trust.
It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.
We exchanged blind words,
and I did not cry,
I did not beg,
but blackness filled my ears,
blackness lunged in my heart,
and something that had been good,
a sort of kindly oxygen,
turned into a gas oven.”
— Anne Sexton, Lessons In Hunger
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving, romance, Heartbreak
“When it happens to you, you will be surprised. That thing they say about how you knew all the time but just weren't facing it? That might be the case, but nevertheless, there you will be. You will feel like you have been kicked in the stomach, that your insides have just separated to make room for something big.”
— Molly Ringwald, When It Happens to You: A Novel in Stories
Tagged: Love, Relationships, promises, Heartbreak, Lies
“The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.”
— Molly Ringwald, When It Happens to You: A Novel in Stories
Tagged: Love, Relationships, promises, Heartbreak, Lies
“Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.”
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Tagged: creepy, Fear, Horror
“So fragile—the human body. Just one prick and it will draw blood. Just one bullet and the bleeding will never stop.”
— Tiana Dalichov, Agenda 46 (Rebellion Rising) (Volume 1)
Tagged: humans, fragile, Blood
“Back in 1957
We had to dance a foot apart
And they hawk-eyed us from the sidelines
Holding their rulers without a heart
And so with just a touch of our fingers
I could make our circuitry explode
All we ever wanted
Was just to come in from the cold”
— Joni Mitchell, Come In From The Cold
Tagged: Joni Mitchell
“Tomorrow is Sunday
Now there's only one day left to go
Till you walk by
Below my window
The weekends drive me mad
Holidays are oh too sad
'Cause you don't go
Below my window

No one knows I'm here
One day I just disappeared
And I took these two grey rooms up here
With a view
When you walk by
Below my window”
— Joni Mitchell, Two Grey Rooms
Tagged: Joni Mitchell
“The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts.”
— Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Tagged: zombies, Death
“It came to pass
Like lightening striking from above
Electric flash
Like lightening striking from above
Struck by precious love
Precious, precious love
So hopeless and so inspired
Why do you dream flat tires?
When you dream flat tires
You dream flat tires”
— Joni Mitchell, You Dream Flat Tires
Tagged: Joni Mitchell
“Moons and Junes and ferris wheels, the dizzy dancing way that you feel
as every fairy tale comes real; I've looked at love that way.
But now it's just another show. You leave 'em laughing when you go
and if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.”
— Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now
Tagged: Joni Mitchell
“Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.”
— Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Tagged: Death, Time, Darkness
“I am on a lonely road and I am traveling
traveling, traveling, traveling
Looking for something, what can it be?
Oh i hate you some, I hate you some
I love you some
I love you when I forget about me
I want to be strong I want to laugh along
I want to belong to the living
Alive, alive, want to get up and jive
wreck my stockings in some juke box dive
Do you want- do you want- do you want
to dance with me baby
do you want to take a chance
on maybe finding some sweet romance with me baby
well come on”
— Joni Mitchell, All I Want
Tagged: Joni Mitchell
“A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least.”
— Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Tagged: Death, Murder, Hero
“Sometimes I'm happy
Sometimes I'm blue
My disposition depends on you
I never mind the rain from the skies
As long as I have the sun in your eyes
Sometimes I love you
Sometimes I hate you
When I hate you
It's because I love you
That's how I am
So what can I do
I'm happy when I'm with you.”
— Joni Mitchell, Sometimes I'm Happy
Tagged: Joni Mitchell

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