“I'll teach Amelia Beauregard a thing or two. - Molly”
― Kirsten Miller, quote from The Darkness Dwellers
“You know the Wicked Witch of Tenth Street? - Ananka's mother, to Principal Wickham”
― Kirsten Miller, quote from The Darkness Dwellers
“Who's Thyrza?" Molly asked.
"What? Oh, some World War II femme fatale. Amelia Beauregard's boyfriend ran away with her."
"That was my grandmother's name.”
― Kirsten Miller, quote from The Darkness Dwellers
“You know how to tail people?" I asked.
My mother shrugged and kept her mouth shut, but her devilish smile said everything.”
― Kirsten Miller, quote from The Darkness Dwellers
“If we get lucky, it will grow hair.”
― Kirsten Miller, quote from The Darkness Dwellers
“Murder develops. Yes, like a photograph, isn't it?”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“And I’m okay, I really am, most of the time. But sometimes, I’m just not.”
― Tammara Webber, quote from Between the Lines
“So the Wolf had killed a time or two. Big deal. He was a wolf! What did they expect? That he’d lick his balls all day and howl at the moon?”
― Marie Hall, quote from Her Mad Hatter
“But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have turned over new leaves.
Because they have no memory . . . because they are not human.”
― Herman Melville, quote from Benito Cereno
“ان نعيش حقا يعني ان نرفض الاخرين ، فالقبول بهم يتطلب التخلي عن الاشياء ، كبح جماح الذات ، التصرف ضد الفطرة ، اضعاف النفس . نحن لانتصور الحرية الا لأنفسنا ولانبسطها على القريبين منا الا بشق النفس .”
― Emil M. Cioran, quote from History and Utopia
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