I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.
Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying

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I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.
Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying
Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
As far as God goes, I am a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil--well, that's something else.
William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.
H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.
Stephen King, It
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
My return seemed to inspire and energize the neighborhood, as though it was evidence that the hard luck of life did not have to rule you. Sometimes miracles do happen.
Saroo Brierley, A Long Way Home