Arthur Conan Doyle
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. — Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles (September 1, 1901)
Category: Thriller
Clive Barker
There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat. ― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume Two. (Berkley Books September 1986)
Peter Høeg
Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? … The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something. — Peter Høeg, Smilla’s Sense of Snow (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1993)
Charles Bukowski
She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed you to suffer for it. — Charles Bukowski, Factotum. (Ecco May 31, 2002) Originally published 1975.
Mark Z. Danielewski
My dear girl, is it that you are so lonely that you had to create this? — Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves. (Pantheon, Random House March 7, 2000)
Cormac McCarthy
How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men ( Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, July 11, 2006) Originally published July 2005.
Denis Johnson
He didn’t like having to start the fire again, that was the source of this small sadness. You get tired of these endless beginnings. – Denis Johnson, Already Dead: A California Gothic (HarperCollins, 1997)
Donna Tartt
Colors so bright they nearly broke my heart. — Donna Tartt, The Secret History (September 16, 1992)
Arthur Conan Doyle
There are instincts which are deeper than reason. — Arthur Conan Doyle, from “The Nightmare Room,” Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. (Delphi Classics; 6 edition May 13, 2011)
Ron Rash
And afterward: as the storm moves on rain trickles off the leaves like an afterthought — Ron Rash, Above the Waterfall: A Novel (Ecco, 2015)
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