Quote by Thomas Bernhard

“The plan wasn't perfect, but it was the most self-destructive thing I could think of, and I so badly needed to self-destruct.”

— Michelle Hodkin The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

“I contemplated this undeniable path we had both stepped onto and rushed along without much planning, without enough caution or judgment.  And there it…

— S.J. Wright

“I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“That was what life was: a process of destruction, a disintegration from what at the outset was perfect. The only suspense involved was whether…

— Jo Nesbø

“And that the surest way to bring destruction upon the things she wanted was to want them in the first place. Her”

— Molly O'Keefe

“The situation was terrible, of course. But the universe could still be so beautiful.”

— Daniel Suarez

“In the end it wasn't death or terror that shattered them. It was someone else's love. How poetic.”

— Kelsey Sutton

“More than anything else I wanted to get inside my readers’ defenses, wanted to rip them and ravish them and change them forever with…

— Stephen King

“The horrors grew. Inner horrors. On the surface it looked as though I was more or less keeping it together, but day by day…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“I would not think about it. The last thing I wanted was to sprinkle even more elements of chaos into my already bubbling cauldron…

— Lumi

“...each loss had been devastating in its own ways and had changed her life.”

— Rachel Gibson

“It was like dying a little every day. It was like being alive, too. It was joy so complete it was pain. It destroyed…

— Sarah J. Maas