Christopher Pike (author) Quotes

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The most content people are those who expect nothing, who have ceased to dream.

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You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.

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Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.

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One question always leads to another question. Some things are better to wonder about.

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Darkness approaches from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.

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They are all I have left—the stars and the memory of the many times I wished upon them. But with all those wishes, I asked for only one thing. To see him again. But I will not see him again. I do not see him now.

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Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?" "You may ask." "How old are you?" "It's none of your business

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He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.' I lean over. My hair smothers him. 'Then you should never have been born,' I say.

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The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years. There is not a soul around as I carry Riley downstairs and dump him in my trunk. It is good, for I am not in the mood to kill again, and murder, for me, is very much tied to my mood, like making love. Even when it is necessary.

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It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.

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How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.

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Nothing is as it seems. Black can appear white when the light is blinding but white loses all luster at the faintest sign of darkness.

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As to blood—ah, blood, the whole subject fascinates me. I do like that as well, warm and dripping, when I am thirsty. And I am often thirsty.

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I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.

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