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These are pieces I've taken from stories, and they're here because:
-They state what I think, what I believe
-They remind me of a character of mine
-They remind me of a friend's character(s)
-They state something quite, quite true.
The ones here will most definitely relate to more than one of those stated above.

The Shining, page 152.
"But things have changed. You know schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted because all we adults have an unspoken agreement that children are lunatics. They have invisible friends. They may go and sit in the closed when they're depressed, withdrawing from the world. They attach talismanic importance to a special blanket, or a teddy bear, or a stuffed tiger. They suck their thumbs. When adults see things that aren't there, we consider him ready for the rubber room. When a child says he's seen a troll in his bedroom, or a vampire outside the window, we simply smile indulgently. We have a one-sentence explanation that explains the whole range of such phenomena in children:

'He'll grow out of it.'"


Interview with the Vampire, page 73.
"But the question pounded in me: Am I damned? If so, why do I feel such pity for her, for her gaunt face? Why do I wish to touch her tiny, soft arms, hold her now on my knee as I am doing, feel her bend her head to my chest as I gently touch the satin hair?
I must want to kill her, I mist want to make her nothing but food for a cursed existence, because being damned I must hate her."

Interview with the Vampire, page 86.
"Evil is a point of view."

Interview with the Vampire, page 241-242.
"What can be imagined can be done."

Interview with the Vampire, page 270.
"For you see, what died tongiht in this room was not that woman, it will take her many nights, perhaps years. What has died in this room tonight is the last vestige in me of what was human."

Interview with the Vampire, page 334.
"You cannot have love and goodness when you do what you know to be evil, what you know to be wrong."

Hunger, page 334. {Part of a poem}
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold,
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
the ceremony of innocence is drownd;
the best lack all conviction, while the worst
are full of passionate intensity.

The Bride Collector, page 68.
"Of course. Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almsot always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently, and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.