Quotes by John Darnielle

“The wind comes across the plains not howling but singing. It's the difference between this wind and its big-city cousins: the full-throated wind of the plains has leeway to seek out the hidden regi...”

“When you punish a person for dreaming his dreamDon't expect him to thank or forgive you.”

“Its hard to describe, this feeling of seeing your kids spending time together like adults, meeting up again after being out there in the world like free agents. Theres something giddy and unreal ab...”

“And when the clouds do clear awayGet a momentary chance to seeThe thing I've been trying to beat to deathThe soft creature that I used to beThe better animal I used to be”

“It's in the nature of the landscape to change, and it's in the nature of people to help the process along...”

“If you work with or around children, you often hear a lot about how resilient they are. It's true; I've met children who've been through things that would drive most adults to the brink. They look ...”

“Cool parents, I thought, are the ones who know nothing. It made me feel a little sad for mine, but I didn't say any of this.”

“Dark, primitive magic. Swords Against Death.”

“Their boots were black and shiny and your treasures gleamed like stars,Bones from deep down in the fertile crescent.”

“There are so many different kinds of ghosts.”

“And then I went back into my room, locked into a sequence as perfect as a pattern, and I sat down on my great rock throne, invisible to the outside world but palpable beneath me, and from how my fa...”

“My grief sought out all parts of my body it hadn't yet inhabited, and I felt like I might collapse in on myself right there, at last, spectacularly”

“But resiliency only means that a thing retains its shape. That it doesnt break, or lose its ability to function. It doesnt mean a child forgets the time she shared in the backyard with her mother g...”

“To the left, just past the painting, on the other side of the hall, is the bathroom, the sort of open door that if cameras found it as they passed through the house in a horror movie would trigger ...”

“I thought about the guy in the truck, the focus in his expression, and I felt like I already knew enough of the story to tell it to somebody else maybe better than either of its major players could.”

“Who knows the secrets of anybodys heart.”

“The inside of the Trace Italian, of course, does not exist. A player can get close enough to see it: it shines in the new deserts of Kansas, gleaming in the sun or starkly rising from the winter co...”

“Metal has its own code of cool, but it's not really trying to be cool. And that was very refreshing to me, that metal is very much about expressing something that seems awesome to you even if, at t...”

“You get this really cool groove when you're playing just piano, bass, and drums where everyone's sort of feeling each other's space, which is the only way to put it, but it really is true, and ever...”

“Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.”