Seattle Mystery Bookshop Books & Decay

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was us, what did that make Me?

After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.

Pratchett, Jingo

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Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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I’m not going to lecture you on the error of your ways. Not until you fetch me a podium and a microphone. I’ll also need a screen, a projector, and a laser pointer.

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When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, “Why god? Why me?” and the thundering voice of God answered, There’s just something about you that pisses me off.

Stephen King

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It seemed more and more like something out of a children’s book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the way home to her fifth-floor walk-up. How above-the-law children’s books are. Hansel and Gretel (littering, breaking and entering), Rumpelstiltskin (forced labor), Snow White (conspiracy to commit murder), Rapunzel (breach of contract).

Sloane Crosley

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Not hear it? —yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long —long —long —many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it —yet I dared not —oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! —I dared not —I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb.

Poe

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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

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I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky.

Through The Looking Glass

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Scary thing about this picture is…..this building isn’t abandoned.

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This boiler room has all the makings for a horror novel… I am thinking vintage Stephen King……

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The wizard Margle the Horrendous takes special pride in never killing his enemies. Instead, he transforms them into various accursed forms and locks them away in his castle.

His halls are filled with his collection of fallen heroes and defeated villains, along with a few ordinary folk who were just unfortunate enough to draw Margle’s attention.

Too Many Curses, A. Lee Martinez

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true apothecary thy drugs art quick…..

Romeo & Juliet

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After the first glass of absinthe you see things as you wish they were.

After the second you see them as they are not.

Finally you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Oscar Wilde

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If music be the food of love, play on….

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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Did your mom ever tell you that the tv was going to rot your brain?

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