"It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing."

Darkness, Discovery, Writing

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"It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing."

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"Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well."

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"On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before."

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"I huddle in the dark with a mass of burnt matches strewn at my feet. And yet, for all of those matches I've not been able to light a single candle. And huddled in such deep darkness, I've somehow yet to realize that Christmas made both matches and candles forever obsolete."

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"The shadows along the streets were personal, and, every passing day, they seemed to grow longer and hungrier"

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"Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time-these flashes of dark were like a crack in the sky, shocking and wrong. Reminding him that the daylight was the illusion, the scattering of light by the atmosphere, and the endless night was the permanent default behind it all."

Lois McMaster Bujold, American Writer

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"If there's a place for me in Hell I hope it's next to someone like you."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

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"Dark is the world's night without you my love."

Pablo Neruda, Chilean Writer

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"An increase in light gives an increase in darkness."

Sam Francis, American Artist

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"Hello, Darkness," Caine said.Gaia's face fell. Her bloody, feral grin faded to be replaced by lips drawn right with fear. Her killer blue eyes widened as she looked at Caine who was no longer Caine."Nemesis," Gaia said."

Michael Grant, American Author

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"Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again."

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