Quote by Steven Erikson

“The gentle downward slope gets steeper and imperceptibly becomes an abyss.”

— Tomas Tranströmer

“If anything occurs that causes your price to go down, it’s a self-inflicted wound.”

— Lawrence L. Steinmetz

“Although, your stripping skills could use a bit of work. Yeah, well, excuse the fuck out of me. You just said take them off...…

— J.M. Darhower

“The slippery slope was everywhere.”

— Paul Russell

“How curious it was, [...], that we humans had taken millions of year to crawl up out of the swamps and yet, within minutes…

— Alan Bradley

“That's when I wanted to cut. I cut to quiet the cacophony. I cut to end this abstracted agony, to reel my selves back…

— Caroline Kettlewell

“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

“At first they’d thought the guillotine would be a sweet, clean business, but when you have twenty, perhaps thirty heads to take off in…

— Hilary Mantel

“We’ve taken the first beautiful slippery step down the slope into the dangerous and forbidden.”

— K.C. Martin

“This will be a new amputation. You've been a part of my flesh, underneath all my skin. Your removal will bleed and leave me…

— Julie Berry

“While I gained a short-term benefit by taking, in the long run I paid. My relationship with a colleague was ruined, and it caused…

— Adam M. Grant

“It is an old story, that men sell themselves to the tempter, and sign a bond with their blood, because it is only to…

— George Eliot