"Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someone's lunch."

Suspicion, Instinct, Perfection, Threat

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"Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someone's lunch."

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"And people think she killed him?" said Miss Tick. She sighed. "They probably think she cooked him in the oven, or somet."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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Dean Koontz, American Author

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"As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed."

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"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place."

Jewel Kilcher, American Musician

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"It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear."

H. P. Lovecraft, American Novelist

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"When you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose."

J.D. Salinger, American Politician

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"I aint sure we've seen these people before. Their kind. I dont know what to do about em even. If you killed em all they'd have to build a annex on to hell."

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"Double one mistake?Seriously?Sounds like something is going on...!"

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"On my fifteenth birthday, I came to realize that the expression spoiled rotten meant exactly that. We kids were the apples of our parents' eyes, and I, for one, was rotting from inside out."

Family

"He will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do.."

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"Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus."

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"There is nothing to fear but fear itself," the captain announces from the helm, "and the occasional man-eating monster."

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"When he touches a wall the ooze grows thicker, drawn to his and as if he's become a gravity well for the darkness - and it occurs to me that the dark must be in love with the light. Yet one must always kill the other."

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"I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't."

Identity

"The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed by what is."

Potential

"One thing yo learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light."

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"The accountant lingers at his children's doorway a moment more, listening to the easy rhythm of their breathing, and something cold moves through him, like the passage of a ghost - but he know that's not it. It's more like the portent of a future. A future that must never come to pass......and for the first time, he gives rise to a thought that is silently echoed in millions of homes that night. My God... what have we done?"

Future

"How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?""They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong."

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