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“You might imagine that a person would resort to self-mutilation only under extremes of duress, but once I'd crossed that line the first time,…

— Caroline Kettlewell

“He felt crazy sometimes. Real depravity. Late at night an electric sizzle came into his blood, a tight pumped-up killing rage, and he couldn't…

— Tim O'Brien

“If there was one thing he knew about himself, it was that he could take any good thing and make a mess out of…

— Cassandra Clare Holly Black

“All his life had been based on this hostile kind of strength; a strength that viewed the world as a thing to master, to…

— Don Berry

He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the…

— Anais Nin

“The blade must cut, even at its own peril.”

— Marc Cameron

“He was terrified he was making the wrong choice. He relied on his instincts in his work but now he didn’t dare trust them.…

— G.S. Jennsen

“He picked up his knife and started carving again. He concentrated on the lines and planes of the wood to keep his mind from…

— Lorraine Heath

“Around every corner, he found himself faced with another dark recess of the human condition, and the struggles people had experienced. It showed him…

— Bella Forrest

“He had seen how people came a cropper by giving way to impulse. It was to his judiciousness, at every turn, that he owed…

— Shirley Hazzard

“It was stupid, pointless, irritating beyond belief that he still had four days left of being unable to perform magic…but he had to admit…

— J.K. Rowling

“Scraps and shreds of thoughts were simply swarming in his brain, but he could not catch at one, he could not rest on one,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky