“The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this–whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe’s utmost rim.”

“The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do?”

“Life went on before you, goes on with you, and will go on without you. Live it to the fullest, enjoy every moment, always have time for real friends and loved ones, learn as much as you can, and be the best human being you believe you can be, not the person who people around you want you to be.”

“Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams.”

“You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.”

“The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one’s own follies.”

“If born amongst diamonds, a person will translate and shine. If born orbiting, a person will translate and rise. If born in the air, a person will translate and fly. But born to the artificial hardships of the 21st century and the upside-down popular beliefs, a person is simply passing time before they die.The temperament of the human creature is to become and to befall the environments around her or him. This is a truth no woman or man can outrun. Can someone please tell those who rule the manmade world? The human has the potential of a demi-god.”

“The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.”

“Unworthiness is a feeling not a fact. You are worthy simply because you are you.”

“It occurred to him that he had not spent his life as he should have done. It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false. And his professional duties and the whole arrangement of his life and of his family, and all his social and official interests, might all have been false.”

“Stand up for what you believe in even if that means standing alone”

“You are the ruler of my heart. There is no measure greater than this.”

“Basically, everyone thinks–knows–how sweet I am.Emma, you threw my sister through hurricane-proof glass.”