C. Robert Cargill Quotes

#1. And when his head slumped forward into his book, she giggled, for she knew that he was hers.

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#2. It's as if some bored ethereal being is fiddling with the remote control to his imagination, clicking channel after channel without finding anything to capture his interest for very long.

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#3. But the truth is, if everyone forgets about us, we fade away.

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#4. There was no such thing as destiny, and no such thing as prophecy; there was only matter slamming into other matter like two toy trucks in the hands of a child.

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#5. The sum of a man isn't the things he's done, it is the world he leaves behind.

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#6. I don't remember her. But she feels special. There's this hole in my heart every time I draw her; you know, a sick sort of feeling. Like she's someone I lost.

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#7. Everyone had a lesson waiting, and they learned it with blood. Sometimes that's how it goes. People learn from failure and tragedy, not from success.

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#8. It was a bar code of a property, generic, ordinary and anonymous.

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#9. It was the literary equivalent of a brown paper bag.

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#10. Not all destinies are fair, Colby. Hers isn't, yours isn't. We get the lives we choose, even when we don't know we're making a choice.

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#11. Heaven has no room for the self-righteous.

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#12. The universe was a vast expanse, far greater than he could ever conceive, and he had seen but a fraction of an inch of it.

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#13. Love is the most primal force in the universe. It inspires us, pulling us over otherwise insurmountable obstacles. Art is created to exalt it, children are born of it, and entire lives are devoted to seeking it out in the most unlikely places.

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#14. Everything else is perspective and window dressing.

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#15. If you remember one thing, even above remembering me, remember that there is not a monster dreamt that hasn't walked withing the soul of man.

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#16. For me, the slower burn is a deeper and more effective scare. But I only like those kinds of scares when they're really earned. I don't like false scares.

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#17. The only thing that lives on is the part that makes everyone they left behind who they are.

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#18. Puckett's Stacks was not the sort of bookshop one happened upon; it was the sort of bookshop for which one looked deliberately.

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#19. Simon Sparks was an oozing slug of a man poured neatly into a three-piece suit.

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#20. I think the experience of getting an audience a little bit tense and shocking them with a jump scare, and then moving on it can be cheap and easy. The harder thing is to get them unnerved and disturbed in a growing way. That starts off easy and increases all the way through the picture.

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#21. You are exactly where you need to be to become exactly who you are supposed to become.

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