142 quotes found
“A thousand prayers every minute everywhere and what does God ever say back? Nothing! Because silence never lies. Silence is God's final advantage. Silence is the purest form of harmony. Everyone ou...”
“It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.""What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?”
“He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.”
“The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled with buoyant darkenss instead of water.”
“The sound of an English accent distracted her and lifted her spirits. She associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deduction. This wasn't, she kne...”
“For a time he read his Neil Diamond bible by the firelight. He paused, twisting nervously at his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit...”
“Writers were as parasitic, she supposed, as the spore itself.”
“Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.”
“Why is there evil in the world? Because sometimes you just wanna fuckin have it, and you dont care who gets hurt.”
“Everything that is good in the day is even better in the night.”
“...but God fears woman even more than He fears the devil -and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man...”
“Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.”
“Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.”
“Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.”
“I think you must make a few [mistakes]. Of you don't, you're probably thinking too much. That's the worst mistake you can make.”
“The dead pull the living down.”
“He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.”
“He got up and ran on, pitching himself down the hill, flying through the branches of the firs, leaping roots and rocks without seeing them. As he went, the hill got steeper and steeper, until it wa...”
“Carroll was eleven years old when he saw The Haunting in The Oregon Theater. He had gone with his cousins, but when the lights went down, his companions were swallowed by the dark and Carroll found...”
“I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier.”
