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Like almost every truly horrible thing that has ever happened in the history of our world, the end also began with a kiss.
— Dennis Sharpe
I am a vampire, and that is the truth.
— Christopher Pike
If I'd known how the week was going to turn out I would have sent it back first thing Monday and asked for a refund.
— Susan Wittig Albert
You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.
— Christopher Moore
They murdered him.
— Robert Cormier
There were no more heroes. Kennedy was dead, shot by an assassin in Dallas. Batman and Robin were dead... Superman was missing...
— Robert Mayer
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
— Rafael Sabatini
Who is John Galt?
— Ayn Rand
I died on a bitter cold night. Beneath a black sky and a bruised winter moon, I tried to fly, hoping my arms might act as wings.
— Jennifer Archer
One burst after another as my wife turned in her sleep. I was a single monkey trying to type the opening lines of my Hamlet,
— Billy Collins
That you should not be here when something we've both wanted happens is no new thing for me. Today too, as always, you're not here.
— Sachin Kundalkar
When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.
— Richard Stark
Maniac Magee was not born in a dump.
— Jerry Spinelli
We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.
— John D. MacDonald
The first time I read the ad, I choked and cursed and spat and threw the paper to the floor.
— Daniel Quinn
First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.
— Richard Ford
Call me Ishmael.
— Herman Melville
She'd be lucky if she got out of this alive . . . and she'd never been lucky in her life.
— Dorian Paul
The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.
— Kurt Vonnegut
That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
— Diana Wynne Jones
Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton.
— Ernest Hemingway,
My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
— Alice Sebold
It was Wang Lung's marriage day.
— Pearl S. Buck
When a naked man shows up on your doorstep with a bear trap clamped around his ankle, it's best just to do what he asks
— Molly Harper
To say the least, it was inconsiderate of Diana's almost-dead husband to show up at her engagement party.
— Robin Lee Hatcher
The chances of anyone colonizing Mars are a million to one!" Or so the newspapers said. But still we came.
— G.H. Finn
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was not used to feeling intimidated. It was rather his job in life to intimidate others.
— Mark Ellis
There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.
— Neil Gaiman
The great fish moved silently through the night water.
— Peter Benchley
The small boys came early to the hanging.
— Ken Follett
The boy shot Wild Bill's horse at dusk, while Bill was off in the bushes to relieve himself
— Pete Dexter
There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
— Louis Sachar
This morning, my mother didn't get out of bed.
— Melina Marchetta
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
— Charles Dickens
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
— Samuel Beckett
I know your secret.
— Jennifer Estep
It was a pleasure to burn.
— Ray Bradbury
If you had met my father you would never, not for an instant, have thought he was an assassin.
— Magda Szubanski
I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful.
— Rae Hachton
Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.
— Rick Riordan
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.
— Greg Nagan
There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Dust rained in the halls of Mechanical; it shivered free from the violence of the digging.
— Hugh Howey
The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door.
— Peter S. Beagle
Carol Druze Was A Stone Killer.
— John Sandford
There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.
— Joshilyn Jackson
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
— Shirley Jackson
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
— James Joyce
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
— Charlotte Bronte
To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
— Kurt Vonnegut
It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears's house.
— Mark Haddon
Indian summer is like a woman.
— Grace Metalious
Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.
— James Patterson
If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.
— P.L. Travers
Show me three lines of the opening theory moves and I will prove to you that two of them are incorrect.
— Emanuel Lasker
I am Tersa the Weaver, Tersa the Liar, Tersa the Fool.
— Anne Bishop
At three o'clock this afternoon Evelyn Wastneys died. I am Evelyn Wastneys, and I died, standing at the door of an old country home in Ireland...
— Mrs. George De Horne Vaizey
The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.
— William Golding
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
— J.K. Rowling
Mister hit Josephine with the palm of his hand across her left cheek and it was then she knew she would run.
— Tara Conklin
I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress.
— Norman Mailer
In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together.
— Carson McCullers
Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.
— Franz Kafka
I was looking for a quiet place to die.
— Paul Auster
The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.
— George Orwell
Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be
— Tea Obreht
I get the willies when I see closed doors.
— Joseph Heller
If you're going to read this, don't bother.
— Chuck Palahniuk
I am a vampire. Blood does not bother me.
— Christopher Pike
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