#Dark

"This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses."

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."

"I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I've been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity - even better, a TV."

"I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are."

"I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value."

"But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it."

"I have a dark sense of humor."

"I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire."

"During my darkest hour, life threw me some curves. Thankfully they were in the shape of a woman’s body."

"Confession is good for the soul, they say. I'd imagine this is true. But my sins were too convoluted. And from the little I understand--too damning."

"I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side."

"The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love."

"All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand Constant Reader and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of."

"One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. “They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die."

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."

"I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor."

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

"I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical, light-hearted feel. You can be a little bit more quirky, you can have a little more humor. It doesn't get so dark and deep."

"Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives."

"I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages."