Death Quote by Philippa Ballantine

“Mortals are the sum of many things, Sieh. They are what circumstance has made them and what they wish to be. If you must…

— N.K. Jemisin

“They were a bit shaken, and sometimes a little dispirited. But at least they never lived to know that everything they’d believed in was…

— George Orwell

“The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings…

— L.M. Montgomery

“There seemed to be no end to the imaginative damage people could do to each other when the influences of societal pressures were removed.…

— Steve R. Yeager

“In every one of these "chrysalis" worlds thousands of millions of persons were flashing into existence, one after the other, to drift gropingly about…

— Olaf Stapledon

“I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very definitely not…

— Karen Traviss

“Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. Some are thin and weak, others long and dark.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Both their attention and their neglect were equally intolerable. His world had become complicated and interesting and magical. Theirs was mundane and domestic. They…

— Lev Grossman

“they, like you, were born to walk the line of shadows. One foot in the light and one in the dark. A few are…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human.”

— William Golding

“Once upon a time, there was only darkness, and there were monsters vast as worlds who swam in it. They loved the darkness because…

— Laini Taylor

“...he was so horribly unhuman, that one shuddered to think that tender women and fair children must, of necessity, confess to fellowship of kind…

— Marcus Clarke