“For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels…. And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.”

“I shot him the bird. (Get it? I shot him the—never mind.)”

James Patterson (1947) American author

“Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

“Instead, I watch myself get shot on television.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

“If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.”

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

“I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“Calvin: That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.
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Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

“It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty…”

Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild

“I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”

Amy Hempel (1951) Short story writer

“If I amlucky - I mean if I am clever about it - I will get myself shot. Here, soon.”

Elizabeth Wein book Code Name Verity