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12 of the scariest lines from literature

TNN | Last updated on - Apr 4, 2017, 15:32 IST
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding

"Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!"
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American Psycho by Bret Easton Hills

"My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape."
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3/12

101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith

"Poison them, drown them, bash them on the head. Got any chloroform? I don't care how you kill the little beasts. Just do it, and do it NOW!"
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Animal Farm by George Orwell

“But no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end.”
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Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”
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Harry Potter and the Half-Bllod Prince by J.K Rowling

"I can make bad things happen to people who annoy me. I can make them hurt if I want to."
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

“I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed: when, by the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window shutters, I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me.”
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In Cold Blood by truman Capote

“I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.”
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9/12

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

“I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled …”
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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

"It's you that ought to be lying there in the church crypt, not her. It's you who ought to be dead, not Mrs. de Winter."
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11/12

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

“A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone."
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12/12

The Shining by Stephen King

“Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I’m not gonna hurt ya. I’m just going to bash your brains in.”
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