💬 Quotes
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"I felt often that I might have been one of them, had I not been so completely convinced of the reality of my own existence."
— Heart of darknessby Joseph Conrad
"There’s something about a small town that makes you want to crawl into a hole and pull the hole in after you."
— The Killer Inside Meby Jim Thompson
"I’m a sick man. I’m a man who’s been sick a long, long time, and I’m a man who’s going to get sicker before he gets well."
— The Killer Inside Meby Jim Thompson
"People are like leaves. They’re all different, and yet they’re all the same. They wither and blow away, and they leave nothing behind but a little dust."
— The Killer Inside Meby Jim Thompson
"You can’t keep a secret from yourself. You can keep it from the world, but you can’t keep it from your own mind."
— The Killer Inside Meby Jim Thompson
"I don't think there's any such thing as a good person or a bad person. Just people, and what they do."
— The Killer Inside Meby Jim Thompson
"I’m a man who’s been a killer for a long time, and I’m a man who’s going to be a killer until the end of time."
— The Killer Inside Meby Jim Thompson
"Beauty to him was less a quality of the woman herself than a function of the sense of the observer."
— Tess of the d'Urbervillesby Thomas Hardy
"Justice was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Aeschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess."
— Tess of the d'Urbervillesby Thomas Hardy
"It was then that she first felt the irresistible need of someone to lean on, and she thought of Angel Clare."
— Tess of the d'Urbervillesby Thomas Hardy
"Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?"
— Tess of the d'Urbervillesby Thomas Hardy
"I don't have feelings. I have a script. And I have learned how to play the role so well that everyone believes it."
— Dexterby Jeffry P. Lindsay
"The dark passenger is a persistent, hungry thing. It demands to be fed, and if I do not feed it, it will consume me from the inside out."
— Dexterby Jeffry P. Lindsay
"Most people live in a world of light and shadow, but I live in a world where the lines between them have been erased, and all that remains is the gray of the kill."
— Dexterby Jeffry P. Lindsay
"I am a monster, but I am a monster with a code, and that code is the only thing that keeps the rest of the world at bay."
— Dexterby Jeffry P. Lindsay
"They say the eyes are the windows to the soul, but in my case, they are merely mirrors reflecting whatever it is that people want to see."
— Dexterby Jeffry P. Lindsay
"We all have our secrets. The only difference is that mine are buried in a patch of dirt at the bottom of the ocean."
— Dexterby Jeffry P. Lindsay