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![Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of](https://images.gr-assets.com/quotes/1384897540p2/37577.jpg)
“Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose. ”
― Sunshine
― Sunshine
![Alberto Manguel](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1227041892i/3602._UY200_CR40,0,200,200_.jpg)
“In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. ”
― The Library at Night
― The Library at Night
![Charles Dickens](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1387078070i/239579._UX200_CR0,46,200,200_.jpg)
“And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
![Barry Kirwan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1330378754i/711866._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“For the thousandth time, Nathan wondered why you didn’t need some kind of basic parenting skills certificate to have kids.”
― When the children come
― When the children come
![Morgan Rhodes](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1354050427i/5295120._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Darkness will always try to extinguish the light. The light will always try to repress the darkness.”
― Rebel Spring
― Rebel Spring
![Barry Kirwan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1330378754i/711866._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Nathan ran a palm over his forehead. He was on a mission with Taliban terrorists. His old sarge would be puking in his grave. He’d always maintained that the enemy of your enemy was still your fucking enemy.”
― When the children come
― When the children come
![Barry Kirwan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1330378754i/711866._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Nathan had never wanted children of his own. Plenty of reasons. Babies screamed as soon as they were born – wasn’t that warning enough of what was to come? And when they grew into toddlers, and then young kids, they were far worse: tantrums, more screaming, whining. How many business trips, restaurant dinners, theatre visits, you name it, were ruined by one small, precocious loud brat and its doting, utterly useless parents? No discipline any more. Nathan had sure been disciplined.”
― When the children come
― When the children come
![Barry Kirwan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1330378754i/711866._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Sally wiped the blood from Anderson’s mouth with her sleeve. She spoke to him, but also loud enough for all to hear. ‘Go find your son, Mr Anderson. This is our war now.”
― When the children come
― When the children come
![Stephen King](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1362814142i/3389._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand, Constant Reader, and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.”
― Full Dark, No Stars
― Full Dark, No Stars
![Michael Wyndham Thomas](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1247012558i/1399226._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Now I gazed out of my office window. Slowly the world was changing from old-gold to the deep purple which, in the words of that dreamy song Mum was fond of humming, bathes garden walls under the twinkle of starlight.”
― The Erkeley Shadows: A novel
― The Erkeley Shadows: A novel
![Yana Toboso](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1322125069i/2988406.jpg)
“You are not wrong. You fought to protect your world. Isn't that good enough? After all, justice in this world is just a bunch of principles made by those with power to suit themselves. No one really thinks of others, you will lose everything if you cannot keep up. Only two kinds of people exist in this world—those who steal and those who are stolen from. So then, today, I just stole your future. That's all.”
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![Patrick Rothfuss](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1351307341i/108424._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.”
― The Wise Man’s Fear
― The Wise Man’s Fear
![R. Scott Bakker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1222098119i/8587._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“I rememeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visible.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.”
― The Judging Eye
― The Judging Eye
![Michael Wyndham Thomas](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1247012558i/1399226._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Next morning, we drank endless cups of coffee in the airport restaurant…Suddenly wide-eyed, she stared past me: “Good grief, some of the people they let in here.”
― The Erkeley Shadows: A novel
― The Erkeley Shadows: A novel
![William Hanna](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1503909794i/667662.jpg)
“Emotional detachment from the plight of others — easily achieved by simply looking the other way — always favoured the perpetrators rather than the victims who were reduced to being inconsequential nonentities; were persecuted and denied legal and human rights; were starving, sick, and dying; were victims of Apartheid policies with racial segregations inclusive of political and economic discrimination; were harassed, internally displaced, or forcibly deported; were imprisoned, tortured, or simply “disappeared”; were enslaved, exploited, or trafficked; and were ultimately the victims of mindless massacres that defied the comprehension of anyone even remotely humane.”
― THE GRIM REAPER
― THE GRIM REAPER
![Roshani Chokshi](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1544538355i/13695109._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“Sometimes light illuminates things that are better left in the dark.”
― Aru Shah and the End of Time
― Aru Shah and the End of Time
![Christine Feehan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1640972827i/6268._CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“I wasn’t going to argue with you. Why ever would you think that? I never argue."
Lucian smiled at her. She was so small, it amazed him she was such a strong person. "Of course you do not argue. What was I thinking? Go to sleep, honey, and allow my poor body to rest."
"I’m already asleep. You’re the one gabbing.”
― Dark Guardian
Lucian smiled at her. She was so small, it amazed him she was such a strong person. "Of course you do not argue. What was I thinking? Go to sleep, honey, and allow my poor body to rest."
"I’m already asleep. You’re the one gabbing.”
― Dark Guardian
![Nenia Campbell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1656046810i/6563933._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“You don't think I could bring myself to mark your lovely skin? I'll take my knife to you, if that's the case. I'll carve my name in your breast so that every beat of your heart will remind you that you are mine—and mine alone. Because blood is binding, and because I would rather see you destroyed than see you free or in the possession of another, so I suggest you not try me, or you will suffer as no earthly creature has.” He slammed her back against the wall. “Or ever will. But that is a suggestion, and one you are free to disregard at your own peril. But you are are going to answer my question.”
― Terrorscape
― Terrorscape
![Ray Bradbury](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1445955959i/1630._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Dad, will they ever come back?"
"No. And yes." Dad tucked away his harmonica. "No not them. But yes, other people like them. Not in a carnival. God knows what shape they'll come in next. But sunrise, noon, or at the latest, sunset tomorrow they'll show. They're on the road."
"Oh, no," said Will.
"Oh, yes, said Dad. "We got to watch out the rest of our lives. The fight's just begun."
They moved around the carousel slowly.
"What will they look like? How will we know them?"
"Why," said Dad, quietly, "maybe they're already here."
Both boys looked around swiftly.
But there was only the meadow, the machine, and themselves.
Will looked at Jim, at his father, and then down at his own body and hands. He glanced up at Dad.
Dad nodded, once, gravely, and then nodded at the carousel, and stepped up on it, and touched a brass pole.
Will stepped up beside him. Jim stepped up beside Will.
Jim stroked a horse's mane. Will patted a horse's shoulders.
The great machine softly tilted in the tides of night.
Just three times around, ahead, thought Will. Hey.
Just four times around, ahead, thought Jim. Boy.
Just ten times around, back, thought Charles Halloway. Lord.
Each read the thoughts in the other's eyes.
How easy, thought Will.
Just this once, thought Jim.
But then, thought Charles Halloway, once you start, you'd always come back. One more ride and one more ride. And, after awhile, you'd offer rides to friends, and more friends until finally...
The thought hit them all in the same quiet moment.
...finally you wind up owner of the carousel, keeper of the freaks...
proprietor for some small part of eternity of the traveling dark carnival shows....
Maybe, said their eyes, they're already here.”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
"No. And yes." Dad tucked away his harmonica. "No not them. But yes, other people like them. Not in a carnival. God knows what shape they'll come in next. But sunrise, noon, or at the latest, sunset tomorrow they'll show. They're on the road."
"Oh, no," said Will.
"Oh, yes, said Dad. "We got to watch out the rest of our lives. The fight's just begun."
They moved around the carousel slowly.
"What will they look like? How will we know them?"
"Why," said Dad, quietly, "maybe they're already here."
Both boys looked around swiftly.
But there was only the meadow, the machine, and themselves.
Will looked at Jim, at his father, and then down at his own body and hands. He glanced up at Dad.
Dad nodded, once, gravely, and then nodded at the carousel, and stepped up on it, and touched a brass pole.
Will stepped up beside him. Jim stepped up beside Will.
Jim stroked a horse's mane. Will patted a horse's shoulders.
The great machine softly tilted in the tides of night.
Just three times around, ahead, thought Will. Hey.
Just four times around, ahead, thought Jim. Boy.
Just ten times around, back, thought Charles Halloway. Lord.
Each read the thoughts in the other's eyes.
How easy, thought Will.
Just this once, thought Jim.
But then, thought Charles Halloway, once you start, you'd always come back. One more ride and one more ride. And, after awhile, you'd offer rides to friends, and more friends until finally...
The thought hit them all in the same quiet moment.
...finally you wind up owner of the carousel, keeper of the freaks...
proprietor for some small part of eternity of the traveling dark carnival shows....
Maybe, said their eyes, they're already here.”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
![Rina Kent](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1589557864i/18697906._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I don't remember my dreams,' I tell the boy with grey eyes.
He pinches my cheek. 'I'll dream for the both of us.'
'Promise?'
'Promise, Elsa”
― Twisted Kingdom
He pinches my cheek. 'I'll dream for the both of us.'
'Promise?'
'Promise, Elsa”
― Twisted Kingdom
![Behcet Kaya](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1442475003i/744640._UX200_CR0,48,200,200_.jpg)
“And now Anderson stood looking at his father. His hands were trembling with eagerness, extending toward him, wanting his father to embrace him. He wanted to love it back to life for all those lost times, for all those times of hope. “Permission to sit, sir?”
― Murder on the Naval Base
― Murder on the Naval Base
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