Quotes by Stephen Graham Jones

“Claire.It was the last candle left within the Indian Agent. The last glimmer.He curled himself around it to keep it alive, and when the storm inhaled he studied his right hand, could feel her besid...”

“. . . what I told Malory happened next is that when he looked over at her then it was like he'd been waiting a hundred years to see her, and this crazy ass Ledfeather girl all the way from Standing...”

“Could feel the reservation wheeling around him, changing shape so that he nearly had to vomit, or hold his arms to his head and scream against it all.”

“He stood over her for as long as he could endure the cold, long enough for the boy tending the dead to pass twice on fingertips and toes. The boy's self-appointed mission was to keep all of their e...”

“I'm all right," I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too.”

“Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.”

“Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at...”

“Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.”

“We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to ...”

“The way humor's usually used in horror, it's as a pressure-release valve; without it, the drama would escalate out of all control almost immediately.”