“I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Fear … is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
“I am learning the pathways of the heart, Eleanor thought quite seriously, and then wondered what she could have meant by thinking any such thing.”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
“I was crushed by what I had put him through. Though I apologized to him and carried on with my daily routine, it took me a long time to feel right again in surgery. I can’t do an adrenalectomy without thinking his case. And I suspect that is good.”
Source: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
“I found myself wishing she'd come back as a vampire or a werewolf, something with fangs and a destructive will. As it was, the onus seemed to be on me to make something of the visit.”
Source: Salt Slow
“Thus flows the Seine ever for those who are throttled by love, fear, religion or madness, those sentiments which are such powerful narcotics”
“Evidently in the six months since I’d last seen them, I’d changed more than I realized.”
Source: Mémoires d'un paresseux
“Some illness bloggers may be remembered for generations, their writings published as books or otherwise circulated after their deaths, but a great many more will be left as 404 messages and obsolete devices. Haunting is hard work.”
Source: Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
“Haunting her was the idea that we each summon our own death. Some in moments of greatest suffering. Some summon death in their moments of greatest joy and love, out of the awareness that such a moment is a pinnacle never again to be reached.”
Source: The Invention of Sound
“I should have known that the dreams would come. They--- the girls--- are like sharks. They sense it when you're weak.”
Source: The Sirens