622 quotes found
“All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin”
“Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and pro...”
“Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway.”
“We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol bene...”
“I could hear the chaotic laughter trailing behind me. It turned the ageless trees into a menace. They loomed around me, while hiding him. The branches tore at my skin in an effort to bind me, while...”
“Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.”
“The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian and Jungian psychiatry, beyond the dubious...”
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
“Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul here and there finds it more than it can bear? Shall there be no strong meat at ta...”
“The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.”
“There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences.”
“I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.”
“I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?”
“I wanted to curl up into a fetal position and start sucking my thumb, let my tears and dripping saliva pool under me. Sorry. I tried living, tried being sentient. Can't do it. Can't live in the sam...”
“I can't imagine you give apologies, Ten had said before, and she'd been right, but Liraz thought that she would now, She would apologize for Savvath. If her voice was her own. If it wasn't reeling ...”
“It's why I get miffed at all the dashing around in recent zombie films. It completely misses the point; transforms the threat to a straightforward physical danger from the zombies themselves, rathe...”
“You can get used to horror, he thought. When it has lost immediacy and is no longer pungent and has become a steady diet. When it has degraded to a chain of mind-numbing events. (Lover When You're ...”
“Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.”
“Behind every great hatred is a love story. For I am a man who has known and tasted love. I say a man because that is how I know myself. Look at me, and what do you see? Do I not take the form of a ...”
“Deep inside her (ih her harrowed soul) she felt a glowing ember of fury at the man responsible for this. Tha man who had put her in this position. She looked at the pistol lying beside the basin, a...”
