Lit-BookQuotes

“We’re all crazy, I believe, just in different ways.” — Alex Michaelides; The Silent Patient

“On the edge of sleep I thought: It’s as if I never existed, because no trace of me remains, I have left no marks. And that way I can’t be followed.” — Margaret Atwood; Alias Grace

“When you are in the middle of a story it isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, blindness, a wreckage of shattering glass and splintering wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It’s only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.” — Margaret Atwood; Alias Grace

“It is strange to reflect that of all the people in that house, I was the only one of them left alive in six months’ time.” — Margaret Atwood; Alias Grace

“‘I think it’s good to change the place where one sleeps from time to time. I believe it gives one more interesting dreams.’” — Donna Tartt; The Secret History

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.” — Donna Tart; The Secret History

“”Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he’s worked so hard to subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay, often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.’” — Donna Tart; The Secret History

“She considered human lives precious, each one a tiny spark in the bonfire of eternity.” — Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson; Dune: House Atreides

“‘Because we are hackers and they have seen movies.’” — Neal Stephenson; Reamde

“‘I don’t think I know how to explain. I don’t belong to your sort of world, for one thing.’” — Daphne du Maurier; Rebecca

“She had written something that felt like I could have written it, except I knew I couldn’t have. I wouldn’t have come up with something like that. Which is what we all want from art, isn’t it? When someone pins down something that feels like it lives inside us? Takes a piece of your heart out, and shows it to you? It’s like they are introducing you to a part of yourself.” — Taylor Jenkins Reid; Daisy Jones and The Six

“‘As you’re just about to tell me; it’s not worth the trouble of guessing.’” — Agatha Christie; And Then There Were None

“‘Deceptions are when you lie to others; secrets are when you lie to yourself.’” — A.J. Hackwith; The Library Of The Unwritten

“The pain in death isn’t the dying. It’s the wounds we leave in our wake.” — A.J. Hackwith; The Library Of The Unwritten

“Think of the speech he just made. When that much shit comes out of your mouth, you’ve got to replace it with something.” — Matt Beaumont, e - a novel