622 quotes found
“A memory can taint your dreams”
“The misbegotten town of Whistlebrass is hidden away in a forgotten corner of northern Vermont like a guilty secret or a bloody knife buried under the floorboards.”
“I don't believe in monsters.""Well, Red, I think you might want to start." Pike turned and looked him in the eye. "What do you think those green things were? And what do you think is trying to smas...”
“Tobacco kills a lot of people, but cigarette vending machines are killing that woman by stealing her job.”
“Dont waste a minute fretting over the infinite destructive possibilities of The Singularity. Think of all the fun were going to have along the way! It will all be one glorious adventure, start to f...”
“Death lurked everywhere. Death was alive and well.”
“Oh my God," Mrs. McIntire screamed. She'd dropped to her knees, the dark sand and water soaking into her jeans. "Neely!" Mr. McIntire held his wife while she screeched her daughter's name over and ...”
“But the thing that . . . that I touched . . . " I cried. "It was furry! It-" I stopped short, taken with a shudder. "I know," said Herrick.”
“Our town carves up and spits out a few seeds each year. We all approach autumn with dread because nobody wants to be a seed.”
“At the witching hour, the city was totally silent. Only the wind of portent blew through the gathered council of whispering brick chimneys on the rooftops, delivering the hand that would write upon...”
“The arms, legs, and torso with head were dragged away in sections as the children were captivated by the drama, zealously chewing their candies with sticky teeth.”
“We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms”
“Cattle... it called us cattle...We're hamburger, you mean.”
“But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.”
“Love, really? We're vampires, not teenagers. Lust is for the weak.”
“I like stories about supervillains. They teach children that you can accomplish great things even when the whole world is against you.”
“So in that sense, I and my fellow horror writers are absorbing and defusing all your fears and anxieties and insecurities and taking them upon ourselves. Were sitting in the darkness beyond the fli...”
“Writing is a lonely act. When two writers come together to write a horror story it can be crazy. You can't step on a mine and hope it doesn't explode.”
“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
