When Roy began to pace, smart people hid.

“A bastard had to learn to notice things, to read the truth that people hid behind their eyes.”

— George R.R. Martin

“After the first week I knew every line, freckle and scar on his body. Some might call it obsessive. I called it having an…

— Madeline Pryce A.K.A. FAyth Devlin

“boys don't like smart girls they like push-around-in-a-cart kinda girls target-for-their-dart kinda girls meat-for-their-shark kinda girls”

— Casey Renee Kiser

“The Baudelaire orphans hung on to one another, and wept and wept while the adults argued endlessly behind them. Finally-as, I'm sorry to say,…

— Lemony Snicket

“Dennis, please. I don't know what-" "Shut the fuck up, and stop playing me for an idiot. And secondly, and more importantly, I've unearthed…

— Simon Kernick

“Because it’s a lit fuse, love – you light it yourself, and you stand around the powder keg afterward, grinning from ear to ear.”

— Daniel Polansky

“Alice is fictional. This isn't.”

— Jess C. Scott

“Jesus: Enough with the rebuking!”

— Rick Klaus Theis

“So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody…

— Sherman Alexie

“It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Then it's fun and games you can't see anymore.”

— James Hetfield

“Please, please be some sex-starved nutcase who wants to kidnap me and make me your love slave, I begged silently.”

— Cate Tiernan

“I've always been a monster,' Scapegrace told her, 'but now, finally, my physical for reflects my inner darkness.' 'You smell terrible.' 'That's the smell…

— Derek Landy

“The moral high ground proved to be one hell of an aphrodisiac...”

— Eve A. Floriste

“... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“Life is like coffee, the darker it gets, the more it energizes.”

— Ankita Singhal