You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn’t much time left.

Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

Life’s only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.

Dexter Morgan, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

Eddard Stark, A Game of Thrones

If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

Eddard Stark, A Game of Thrones

Hazing is as much a part of this life as alarm bells.

Chief Morrow, Lie To Me

O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

Leo Rosten

There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that’s too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!

Ray Bradbury

If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.

Stephen King, The Wind Through The Keyhole

A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.

Stephen King, The Wind Through The Keyhole

Time is a keyhole, he thought as he looked up at the stars. Yes, I think so. We sometimes bend and per through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do it – the wind that blows through the keyhole – is the breath of all the living universe.

Stephen King, The Wind Through The Keyhole