Psychology Quote by Samuel Johnson

“By the middle of the novel I decided that what two people don't say to each other forges a stronger bond than honest.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“[W]hen you find yourself face to face with one [Bondsmage], you bow and scrape and mind your 'sirs' and 'madams.'" ... 'Nice bird, asshole,'…

— Scott Lynch

“Killing goblins was justified. I had no doubt about the sinlessness of it, and I did not avoid my reflection out of any fear…

— Dean Koontz

“As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding…

— Dean Koontz

“Some offered such rude comfort as their sympathetic hearts but not too fecund intellects could devise,”

— Sir Hall Caine

“...[T]o restrain [evil men] by their sense of humanity is the same as to stop a runaway horse with a bridle of silk thread.”

— Walter Scott

“There weren't always happy endings and children would do well to know that vile things could happen to them, that witches and wolves were…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its…

— Jane Austen

“I was secretly entranced with the idea of a lady novelist. I should dearly love to be one. Or maybe a goblin-fighting-pirate-queen. It was…

— Alyxandra Harvey

“Expectations are dangerous things. They've probably killed more people than any creature or cryptid you care to name.”

— Seanan McGuire

“Moral wounds have the peculiarity that they are invisible, but do not close: always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain tender…

— Alexandre Dumas

“A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done, cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without…

— Charlotte Brontë