#fiction

Maybe we choose to stay in a constant state of ignorance as a protective instinct — maybe I was just in denial. I just don’t get how you can be completely in love with someone one day, and then all of a sudden you just aren’t. I will never forget that day...the day where I became numb. ↗

— Piper Caleb

#diary #eating-disorders #new-adult #psychology #love

Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it. ↗

— Rick Yancey

#monster #monsters #monstrumologist #rick-yancy #science-fiction

Emma was doing something nice for Simon? Hell must be enjoying the snow day. ↗

— E.J. Stevens

#fiction #humorous #mystery #mystery-series #paranormal

How would you like to star in your very own commercial?" "I'd rather swim in battery acid. ↗

— Robin Benway

#humor #wait #young-adult-fiction #humor

Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money? ↗

— Trudi Canavan

#fiction #humor #magic #humor

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction. ↗

— Sarah Caudwell

#humor

Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it. ↗

— D. Harlan Wilson

#fantasy #horror #humor #literary #postmodern

Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad idea. ↗

— Jonathan Morris

#doctor-who #humor #science-fiction #humor

Sow a thought and reap an action, sow an action and reap a habit, sow a habit and reap a destiny - John Cleaver ↗

— Dan Wells

#fiction #humor

I have seen many cases like N. during the five years I've been in practice. I sometimes picture these unfortunates as men and women being pecked to death by predatory birds. The birds are invisible - at least until a psychiatrist who is good, or lucky, or both, sprays them with his version of Luminol and shines the right light on them - but they are nevertheless very real. The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much, it's true), they go to movies, they make love to their girlfriends and boyfriends, their wives and husbands . . . and all the time those birds are there, clinging to them and pecking away little bits of flesh. ↗

— Stephen King

#horror #humor #life #ocd #death