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    Jess C. Scott
    “People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.”
    ― Jess C. Scott, Literary Heroin (Gluttony): A Twilight Parody
    tags: dark-humor, entertainment, herd-mentality, humor, hype, mainstream-media, mass-media, media, mindlessness, pop-culture, sheep, sheep-mentality, sheeple, television
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    Michael Chabon
    “Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.”
    ― Michael Chabon
    tags: dark-humor, futility
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    Alan Bradley
    “I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.”
    ― Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
    tags: dark-humor, enemies, flavia-de-luce, humor, intelligence, sarcasm, vengeance, wrath
    164 likes

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    Brent Weeks
    “A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint”
    ― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
    tags: dark-humor, fantasy
    128 likes

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    Fall Out Boy
    “The rest of us can find happiness in misery.”
    ― Fall Out Boy
    tags: dark-humor
    123 likes

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    Jess C. Scott
    “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.”
    ― Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey
    tags: dark, dark-divine, dark-humor, dark-lover, darkness, death, desire, dying, emotion, emotional, emotional-plague, emotionally-scared, emotions, envy, flowers, gothic, gothic-fiction, gothic-romance, incubus, life, lilies, love, lust, paranormal, paranormal-fiction, paranormal-romance, passion, self, succubus, supernatural, supernaturalism, truth-beauty, truth-love-hope, urban-fantasy
    144 likes

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    Jay Wickre
    “When your past shows up to haunt you, make sure it comes after supper so it doesn't ruin your whole day.”
    ― Jay Wickre
    tags: anxiety, dark-humor, depression, humor, reality
    86 likes

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  • #8
    Brian P. Cleary
    “A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarmed intruder you just shot.”
    ― Brian P Cleary
    tags: dark-humor, humor
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    Lemony Snicket
    “The right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing” is a phrase that refers to times when people ought to know, but don’t know, about something that is happening very close to them. For instance, you ought to know about the man who watches you when you sleep.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: dark-humor
    78 likes

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    Darynda Jones
    “He took a long draw then asked, “What’d I do?”
    “You knew about the guy threatening my dad?”
    He paused, shifted in his chair, so freaking busted, it wasn’t funny. “They told you?”
    “Why, no, Swopes, they didn’t. Instead, they waited until the guy knocked the fuck out of my dad and readied him for spaceflight with duct tape then tried to kill me with a butcher’s knife.”
    ― Darynda Jones, Second Grave on the Left
    tags: dark-humor
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    Frankie Boyle
    “For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person. (on Margaret Thatcher)”
    ― Frankie Boyle
    tags: dark-humor, death, devil, funeral, funny, hell, humor, humour, margaret-thatcher, politics, scotland
    73 likes

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  • #12
    Gena Showalter
    “Bomb', Reyes said, not bothering to look up.
    'One of ours?' Maddox insisted...
    'Hardly. I know better than to blow myself up,' Reyes sighed.”
    ― Gena Showalter, The Darkest Night
    tags: dark-humor, reyes
    60 likes

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    Brent Weeks
    “Your Majesty,” Durzo said gravely. “A man of your stature’s cursing vocabulary ought to extend beyond a tedious reiteration of the excreta that fills the void between his ears.” - Durzo Blint”
    ― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
    tags: dark-humor, fantasy
    37 likes

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    Tom Upton
    “All I did was offer to kill your dog, and the next thing I know I’m being judged.”
    ― Tom Upton, Hellhounds
    tags: dark-humor, teen, young-adult
    35 likes

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  • #15
    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Bullet
    tags: dark-humor, fear, love
    29 likes



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