Christopher Pike Quotes

• Sometimes, if I am not careful, and I stare too long at a flower, it shrivels and dies.

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  Topics in Death

• God is God. His name doesn’t matter.

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  Topics in God

• There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.

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  Tags in Time

• The best art always comes unbidden.

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  Topics in Art

• Don’t simply knock and wait for the door to be opened. Go look for the keys. Some fit the lock better than others.

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  Topics in Inspirational, Life

• For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

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  Topics in History

• There is no time for grief; there never is.

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• Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries.

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  Topics in Inspirational

• Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

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  Topics in Life

• People with power always take advantage of those without power.

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  Topics in Power

• The truth is always simpler than you can imagine.

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  Topics in Truth

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

• The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.

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  Topics in Love

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Darkness

• Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

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  Topics in Death

• Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.

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  Topics in Love

• No religion is perfect, not after man gets through with it.

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  Topics in Religion

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

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  Topics in Inspirational

• When you were in love you knew no fear or hatred.

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  Topics in Love

Christopher Pike (39)

Birth:	12th November, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

Christopher Pike was born in New York. He is an American bestselling author of young adult and children's fiction. He initially wrote science fiction and adult mystery, but later began writing teen thrillers due to an editor's suggestion. This resulted in the 1985 novel Slumber Party, a book about a group of teenagers who run into bizarre and violent events during a ski weekend. He has written several novels for children under the Spooksville series title, as well as several adult novels such as his 1990 book Sati.

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