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“It was not a monster that lay sleeping on the white sheets. Nor a faceless horror. Nor even the white bear. It was a…

— Edith Pattou

“They were savages, yet they were ghosts. The two most terrible and dreaded foes of civilised experience seemed combined at once in them.”

— Grant Allen

“There are heroes, and there are the rest of us. There comes a time when you just let go the ghost of the better…

— John Burnham Schwartz

“In the stories, the old fairy tales, a hero comes. But all my heroes are gone or dead. No one is coming for me.”

— Victoria Aveyard

“I was the daughter of my father's wife. I spoke in a trembly voice. I became pale, ill, and more thin. I let myself…

— Amy Tan

“They were a sorry-looking bunch. Their clothes were in tatters. Their flesh was ripped. They were filthy beyond filth. For once, they looked like…

— Maggie LaCroix

“That was the man's real trouble, not the savage and uncanny civilizations he encountered--he kept forgetting what he had.”

— Colson Whitehead

“He lay on the bed and he felt he might never rise from it. He lay in an enormous torpor. The world was too…

— William Gay

“Here there was no shelter for his soul. There were no houses for a home. It was all a wilderness. It was all a…

— Philip Dodd

“Every ghost has a story. Monsters are nothing without mythology.”

— Kris Kidd

“He saw that for the rest of his days, frail, racked, but enduring, he would live in the face of a purifying terror. A…

— Flannery O'Connor

“To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

— Benjamin Disraeli