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"Kids absolutely not reading. I think it's because they're so screen-oriented [TVs, computers, smartphones]. They do read - girls in particular read a lot. They have a tendency to go toward the paranormal, romances, Twilight and stuff like that. And then it starts to taper off because other things take precedence, like the Kardashian sisters."
"Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside."
"Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook."
"A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man."
"Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story."
"Semi-automatic s have only two purposes. One is so owners can take them to the shooting range once in a while, yell yeehaw, and get all horny at the rapid fire and the burning vapor spurting from the end of the barrel. Their other use-their only other use-is to kill people."
"A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion."
"Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar."
"So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little."
"The definition of an asshole is someone who doesn't believe what he is seeing."
"Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark"
"But this wealth of information produced little or no insight."
"Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up."
"Don't let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha."
"Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?"
"There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror. The brain behind that face never heard of razors, prayers, or the logic of the universe. You turn the mirror sideways and see your face reflected with a sinister left-hand twist, half mad and half sane."
"If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die."
"Fear is the emotion that makes us blind."
"What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage."
"When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies."