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c856ba5 You are a manipulator. I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer. dark label comedy manipulation euphemism J.R. Ward
3a78ec1 It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. time dark future past dreams inspirational age dreaming Edgar Allan Poe
a37204a It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright. dark day night Stephen King
f8f28a1 "The baby bat Screamed out in fright, dark light fear humor Shel Silverstein
5b333a2 Vengeance was one hell of a roommate. lover dark dagger wrath J.R. Ward
05f5a9c But we never get back our youth... The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to. macabre dark inspirational Oscar Wilde
2de4968 "The place is also big enough. We could all live there without killing each other." -Rhage "That depends more on your mouth than any floorplan." -Phury" dark view-point comedy J.R. Ward
ba2c86e Quiet people have the loudest minds. steven-king dark reading books inspirational inspiring-quotes authors minds quotes horror writers Stephen King
86edfbe Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: reassurance dark magic light roses shadows Robin McKinley
a71c3a4 Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful. dark love phury ruin endings J.R. Ward
4f2d66b Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid. dark apprentice delaney last-apprentice tom-ward Joseph Delaney
42c2cd6 In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15). tucson dark joy life love tide times taught kingsolver rebirth high Barbara Kingsolver
ce15137 And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day. dark inspirational defarge ironic angry Charles Dickens
0b50331 Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. dark broken depressing relatable first-sentence sad Sarah J. Maas
20f8922 It touched me to be trusted with something terrible. dark fiction vlad-the-impaler european historian dracula moody historical vampire horror Elizabeth Kostova
2f552ef I survive at the edge of friends circles. dark friends motives deceit lie sad Holly Black
062f654 It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying. time stars dark bleeding mornig day blue dying Markus Zusak
fa3109e Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me. young-adult dark sarah-j-maas feyre beautiful-quote broken beginning introduction Sarah J. Maas
e46d14b A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don't want to see seeing dark light darkness blinded blindness see shadows Terry Tempest Williams
a7ac17d "I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment." dark friends humor Holly Black
5f2f96b "I wasn't going to argue with you. Why ever would you think that? I never argue." Lucian smiled at her. She was so small, it amazed him she was such a strong person. "Of course you do not argue. What was I thinking? Go to sleep, honey, and allow my poor body to rest." "I'm already asleep. You're the one gabbing." dark jaxon montgomery guardian feehan lucian Christine Feehan
1c4e7f4 "She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes," he said finally." literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
2d4dc6d Once again there was the desert, and that only. man dark tower chambers deschain gunslinger jake roland stephen desert king Stephen King
613d747 Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark. dark life earthsea self Ursula K. Le Guin
419823e What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death. dark death truth favourite-quote Kurt Vonnegut
2283cf9 And I didn't think even eternity would be long enough to fix me. dark depressing falling-apart immortal wounded dreary fae sad trauma Sarah J. Maas
6d750b1 I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it! winter dark new-england William Faulkner
ae82988 You have only seen the least of what I can do. dark mysterious enemies elfham prince-cardan jude faerie Holly Black
f6d3db1 "Dad, will they ever come back?" "No. And yes." Dad tucked away his harmonica. "No not them. But yes, other people like them. Not in a carnival. God knows what shape they'll come in next. But sunrise, noon, or at the latest, sunset tomorrow they'll show. They're on the road." "Oh, no," said Will. "Oh, yes, said Dad. "We got to watch out the rest of our lives. The fight's just begun." They moved around the carousel slowly. "What will they look like? How will we know them?" "Why," said Dad, quietly, "maybe they're already here." Both boys looked around swiftly. But there was only the meadow, the machine, and themselves. Will looked at Jim, at his father, and then down at his own body and hands. He glanced up at Dad. Dad nodded, once, gravely, and then nodded at the carousel, and stepped up on it, and touched a brass pole. Will stepped up beside him. Jim stepped up beside Will. Jim stroked a horse's mane. Will patted a horse's shoulders. The great machine softly tilted in the tides of night. Just three times around, ahead, thought Will. Hey. Just four times around, ahead, thought Jim. Boy. Just ten times around, back, thought Charles Halloway. Lord. Each read the thoughts in the other's eyes. How easy, thought Will. Just this once, thought Jim. But then, thought Charles Halloway, once you start, you'd always come back. One more ride and one more ride. And, after awhile, you'd offer rides to friends, and more friends until finally... The thought hit them all in the same quiet moment. ...finally you wind up owner of the carousel, keeper of the freaks... proprietor for some small part of eternity of the traveling dark carnival shows.... Maybe, said their eyes, they're already here." temptation dark light fear life internal-conflict evil Ray Bradbury
c600499 "Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?" literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
223d5e9 Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat - It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat dark handmaids myths-series the-myths hopeful Margaret Atwood
d085f93 He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls. mad dark teen monstrous tana sci-fi gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown insane ya Holly Black
f38d5b9 He whom the gods love dies young. literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Menander
17ad0cc Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you. dark romance love scent-of-darkness demon werewolf paranormal paranormal-romance Christina Dodd
cb8c66c Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to. literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
fb22702 I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood? dark books tana teens gavriel paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya Holly Black
b99c19f Sharpen your heart. young-adult dark fiction fantasy hollow-hall elfham prince-cardan jude faerie Holly Black
311e5fc "If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you." Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone." -- dark life Holly Black
e0ea08c There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don't know this and this is just as well because the world could not really operate if everyone stayed in bed with the blankets over their head, which is what would happen if people knew what horrors lay a shadow's width away. dark terry-pratchett equal-rites horror discworld Terry Pratchett
385e756 Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways. literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
82d3568 "Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?" literature dark romance books beautiful gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
ceccb87 I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did. literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
03d1570 Whoever controls the king, controls the kingdom young-adult dark fiction enemies dangerous prince-cardan jude faerie Holly Black
f5847f5 I'm sorry,' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus. I'm sorry Rachel. I'm sorry Jon. I'm sorry I'm alive and you're dead. I'm sorry I was asleep. I'm sorry I didn't save you and now I'm taking your things. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
fee373b "Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire." "He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm not going to repay that by-" she hesitated, then frowned. "What did you call him?" "That's his name," Aidan sighed, "Gavriel. The other vampires, while they were tying me to the bed, they said his name." "Oh." With a final tug she pulled the blanked free and tossed it over to 'Gavriel" literature dark romance books beautiful gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
0ef2444 You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet. literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
16f855c Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be. dark light sentient-beings possibility Charles de Lint
039ac4a The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair. dark sedaris strangers David Sedaris
b92d905 There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones. story dark Jodi Picoult
95b7703 Guard your mortal heart. young-adult dark fantasy cruel dangerous prince-cardan jude locke Holly Black
42ea1d6 "Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly, "Oh no. No." "Leave me," said Gavriel. ....."Shut up or I might," she told him." literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
4a246b5 Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying, too. They cried while they ate their cereal, cried while they watched cartoons, and cried themselves to sleep at night, huddled together in Tana's little bed. 'Make her stop' Pearl said, but Tana couldn't. dark books monstrous pearl pearl-bach tana-s-mother wonderfully-awful tana tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown terror Holly Black
16d5baa "He let out a hiss of pain,then smiled that crooked, sheepish smile he always fell back on when he was caught doing something bad. "Sorry. I-I didn't mean to. I just- I've been lying here for hours, thinking about blood." young-adult dark boys imprisoned blood tana teens paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya Holly Black
7e7a09d Harden your heart. dark fantasy dangerous elfham prince-cardan jude faerie Holly Black
7310826 His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before. literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
6ffb76b In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death. literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
fcb8756 The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul? dark my-kind-of-book twisted John Steinbeck
456fe81 First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren't rare. But one strange year, halloween came early....don't you ditch me jim nightshade...don't talk death. Someone might hear... dark jim will halloween Ray Bradbury
c580de0 The city was dark except for the building lights that seemed to appear like sores - like bandaids had been ripped off to expose the city's skin. dark expose ripped-off sores lights building skin city Markus Zusak
7718289 please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown literature dark romance books gavriel paranormal paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya vampires Holly Black
be020dc Had pretended to be Abbadon of the Dark, when always he had been working for the Light. dark light Melissa de la Cruz
b9fac40 It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes... dark life mental-hospital emotional vampire classic S.E. Hinton
b7c6238 The dark side is emotion, Bane. Anger, hate, love, lust. These are what make us strong, Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Your passion is still there, Bane. Seek it out. Reclaim it. hate dark emotion love sith peace star-wars lust strong lie Drew Karpyshyn
6195623 I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism. creative dark light work science immense picture sagacity vast landscape perfectionism goal realm task genius Denis Diderot
02e9cfb Anger was better than feeling nothing; because anger and hatred were the long-lasting fuel in the endless dark of my despair. The same way that music had kept me from breaking. hatred dark darkness music breaking feeling feel fury despair Sarah J. Maas
ea73fdd People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness. The black and the black and the black. happy good dark people goodness darkness happiness fused grab grabbing scratch spider lights beyond web distraction see black surface distracted John Fowles
23de864 Our shadow is on the outside. And we can see in the dark: we can see you, we see you turn away, but one day we finally understand that you turn away not from our faces but from your own fears. From those things inside you that you think mark you as someone unlovable to your family, and society, and even to God. prejudice dark fear see hide Anne Lamott
a7a30ab An ordinary man can enjoy breakfasting on juice and rye bread. But when you are underfed, scorned, miserable or just plain bored, you don't want to eat dull wholesome food. You want something a little more colourful, exciting, tastier, meatier and juicier. lessons dark humor life series animated cat-haee cathaee children-s-books dark-humor edward-gorey enhanced-epub3 general-fiction graphic-novel haee illustrated-books middlings pets quirky quirky-characters r-s-vern shel-silverstein tim-burton trilogy young-adults R.S. Vern
fc5d3ab Empires die, like all of us dancers in the strobe-lit dark. dark light empires shadows David Mitchell
dae6b13 It is strange how loud little sounds become when you are in the dark and doing something wrong. dark darkness noises sneaking Richard Llewellyn
81417b0 This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and it buys nothing. Gives birth to nothing. All in vain. All wasted. The older the world becomes, the more obvious it is. The bomb and the tortures in Algeria and the starving babies in the Congo. It gets bigger and darker. More and more suffering for more and more. And more and more in vain. pain suffering dark world birthing older starving vain nothing necessary bomb obvious terrible wasted waste torture John Fowles
1c9d77f "Why'd you want to kill yourself? Didn't you feel anything, or didn't it hurt you?" Mandy questioned, looking puzzled. "Yes, I suppose it did, ... it was strange, it was sharp, that's all I can think of to describe it... and cold, but not cold like ice, more like... I don't know, like something much worse, something horrible... and it seemed like the ground was falling upwards, becoming the sky... for a moment it made me consider that it was just a dream, that I was on some sort of drug, and then I remember being overjoyed to see the sky was still above me, then just really sad, really tired... and then I don't remember much else about it," Alecto told her, glaring straight ahead at the sky with narrowed eyes. "I don't mind, I'm not supposed to mind, anyway. Mearth already told me that eventually I would want to be dead, that it was inevitable... still, I sometimes wish that I could have done something good for other people in my life, it might have made up for all the bad stuff I've done." suicide grief loss dark friends death sadness friendship dysfunctional swing-set confusion morbid spooky creepy canada help friend self-harm self-mutilation halloween drugs dying nostalgia Rebecca McNutt
ff61bba It was a dark story. marriage dark death short kidnapping pirate theft ominous Joseph Conrad
c1526dd "Everyone is pretty enough in the dark," she whispered. "No, they are not." He kissed her before pulling back abruptly, willing himself to stop." dark darkness Sylvain Reynard
b7d2041 All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led. What had I let myself in for? dark fear short-sentences C.S. Friedman
95f0da7 It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch. men clever dark love embarrass impatient late ordinary embarrassment mediocrity mother mystery mysterious father impatience Daphne du Maurier
6f2c7fb He'll have to do without me, Jamie thought, not looking back. And then clearly, as if he'd been told, he knew Grenville /could/ do without him. There was somewhere else he had to go now, somewhere else he had to be. dark light death life mental-hospital emotional sailor vampire S.E. Hinton
c55b215 Outside, under the marquee of the hotel, he stood a moment as he did each night beneath the marquee of the Hotel Hyperion, while he decided what direction to take, what to do. And suddenly, realizing it was not the Hotel Hyperion, that the circumstances were quite different, he felt loneliness spring up like a dark forest all around him. The odd thing was, he felt no impulse to hurry after her, to find her somehow. What would he have to offer her except the history of weakness, loneliness, and inadequacy, the decline and fall of himself? He himself was the core of the loneliness around him, and its core was inadequacy. He was inadequate even in love. loneliness history dark love offer inadequacy hurry forest fall weakness direction impulse decline Patricia Highsmith
9a15c81 But you find--surprise--that you like this capitulation from her, this helpless acceding, from the most recent embodiment of all the girls over all the years who've given you nothing, not even a curious glance. Welcome to the darker side of love. dark love Michael Cunningham
ea517a4 An eerie atmosphere leeched from the soot-damaged walls. It was as if the house had died, and yet she felt she belonged here. It was as if the old place wanted to claim her from the grave. dark ominous Sara Sheridan
003016b Armata, casatoria, biserica si banca: cei patru calareti ai Apocalipsei. dark humor Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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