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...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. -Stephen King
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. -Oscar Wilde
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. -Henry Adams
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. - W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. -Terry Pratchett
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. -Marquis de la Grange
Resolve is never stronger than in the morning after the night it was never weaker. - Johnny, Naked
You're all fools! Heroic fools. The brave are always the first to die. -X-Men: the Animated Series
...but since when do people like us get what we want? -John Crichton
All the Devil requires is acquiescence... not struggle, not conflict. Acquiescence. -The List of Seven
I know now why you cry. But it's something I can never do. -The Terminator to John, Terminator 2: Judgment Day
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -Gore Vidal
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. -Kahlil Gibran
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. - Walt Whitman
Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth. - Toni Morrison
At my signal, unleash hell. -The Gladiator
Pain can be controlled - you just disconnect it. -Kyle Reese, Terminator
When will you learn there isn't a word for everything? -The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
"No! It's not enough! I killed - but I didn't just kill fifty, I didn't kill a hundred, I killed a thousand. I killed TEN THOUSAND. And I was good at it. And it wasn't for vengeance, it wasn't for greed, it was because - I liked it. Cassandra was nothing. Her village was nothing. Do you know who I was? I was Death. Death on a horse. When mothers warned their children that the monster would get them, that monster was me. I was the nightmare that kept them awake at night. Is THAT what you want to hear? The answer is yes. Oh, yes." ~Methos
"The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender." -Emil Ludwig
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. -Oscar Wilde
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. -Henry Adams
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. - W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. -Terry Pratchett
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. -Marquis de la Grange
Resolve is never stronger than in the morning after the night it was never weaker. - Johnny, Naked
You're all fools! Heroic fools. The brave are always the first to die. -X-Men: the Animated Series
...but since when do people like us get what we want? -John Crichton
All the Devil requires is acquiescence... not struggle, not conflict. Acquiescence. -The List of Seven
I know now why you cry. But it's something I can never do. -The Terminator to John, Terminator 2: Judgment Day
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -Gore Vidal
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. -Kahlil Gibran
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. - Walt Whitman
Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth. - Toni Morrison
At my signal, unleash hell. -The Gladiator
Pain can be controlled - you just disconnect it. -Kyle Reese, Terminator
When will you learn there isn't a word for everything? -The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
"No! It's not enough! I killed - but I didn't just kill fifty, I didn't kill a hundred, I killed a thousand. I killed TEN THOUSAND. And I was good at it. And it wasn't for vengeance, it wasn't for greed, it was because - I liked it. Cassandra was nothing. Her village was nothing. Do you know who I was? I was Death. Death on a horse. When mothers warned their children that the monster would get them, that monster was me. I was the nightmare that kept them awake at night. Is THAT what you want to hear? The answer is yes. Oh, yes." ~Methos
"The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender." -Emil Ludwig