"To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid."

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Source : Andrew Pyper (2013). “The Demonologist: A Novel”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

Andrew Pyper

“I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?”
“We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!”
“I sort of have to self-censor sometimes.”
“Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings!”
“If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer.”
“My family immigrated from Korea when I was four years old, and when I started school, I didn't speak English. I remember that other kids would blame everything bad that happened in kindergarten on me - I spent a lot of time "in the corner" because I literally didn't have the words to explain that it wasn't me!”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“The only love she inspires is the canine kind.”

Source : Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.163, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.”

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