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We are born innocent. It is not fate that makes us so. It is us.
Robert Langdon, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
There's something about a room where a murder’s happened. The air’s different.
Philip Marlowe, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.
The Assyrian, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Even a man who is pure at heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.
Maleva, The Wolfman by Jonathan Maberry
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
Narrator, 1984 by George Orwell
It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Alice, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ.
Libby Day, Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin Disraeli, Endymion by Benjamin Disraeli
Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.
Primo Levi, If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
Narrator, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
Narrator, The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
True evil is, above all things, seductive. When the Devil knocks at your door, he doesn’t have cloven hooves. He is beautiful and offers you your heart’s desire in whispered airs.
Lasher, The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Narrator, The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
Hamlet, Hamlet by William Shakespeare
But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.
Nick Dunne, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
Narrator, 1984 by George Orwell
Sometimes the only way to catch an uncatchable woman is to offer her a wedding ring.
Thomas Crown, The Thomas Crown Affair by Alan Trustman
Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep.
John Harker, Dracula by Bram Stoker
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
They regard this as their job, or maybe their duty like it was a war or something. And you, you're the enemy.
Tom Booker, The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
I've always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we'll have.
Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.
Narrator, Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.
Philip Marlowe, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
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