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“Fear's greatest weapon is its ability to blind one to anything. In its presence, we forget there are others to consider, things to save besides ourselves.”

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Jonathan Carroll

Jonathan Carroll is an American writer known for his unique literary style and rich imagination. His works span a variety of genres including fantasy, mystery, and realism, and have won the hearts of readers worldwide. more

“Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted to believed in. You know you're about to die. And it's not a movie and you aren't a hero and all you can do is whimper and wait.”

Knows Humans Wanted Together Dies Waiting Can Do Behinds Hero Understood Shadow Skins Leaving Terror Slips

Book:The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction

Source: The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction

“She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.”

Faces Father Laughing Bed Laughed Knives Leeches

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.”

Ifs Men Seems Bits Cutting Truth Is Truth Be Told Eunuchs

Book:A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three

Source: A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three

“You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four." "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”

Trying Two Sometimes Helping Eye Three Easy Five Four Fronts Harder Sane Learners

Book:The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four

Source: The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four

“So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alchemy.”

Ifs Husband My Husband Alchemy Love My Husband

Book:The Birth of Venus (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

Source: The Birth of Venus (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

“My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.”

Ideas Sex Ideals Site Sex Education

Author:Susie Bright

“The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, No higher than the soul is high. The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand; The soul can split the sky in two, And let the face of God shine through. But East and West will pinch the heart That can not keep them pushed apart; And he whose soul is flat—the sky Will cave in on him by and by.”