"Grow the lawn and mow the lawn
always keep the TV on,
brush your teeth and kill the germs,
poison apples, poison worms."
— Trenton Lee Stewart (The Mysterious Benedict Society)

""The missing aren't missing, they're only departed,
All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded,"
"
— Trenton Lee Stewart (The Mysterious Benedict Society)

"But then I'm distracted by movement in the Forest, a glimpse of red at the edge of my vision. She's no longer running, no longer even walking or standing, but crawling now. Dragging her broken body across the ground toward me, her fingers clawing at the dirt. Her progress is slow, unbearably so. Such that it's almost sad to see her reduced to this. Her body has used up it's stores of energy and has begun collapsing in on itself."
— Carrie Ryan

"Riggedy riggedy white
Come and spend the night
We'll play some games
Some wild some tame
Cause if you will, you might.

By, Laberge "
— D.J. MacHale

""The missing aren't missing, they're only departed,
All minds keep all thought - so like gold - closely guarded,"
"
— Trenton Lee Stewart

"We are in the dark places of the earth," said Madman. "Where all the ancient and most dangerous secrets are kept. There are Old Things down here, sleeping all around us, in the earth and in the living rock, and in the spaces between spaces. Keep your voices down. Some of these old creatures sleep but lightly, and even their dreams can have force and substance in our limited world. We have come among forgotten gods and sleeping devils, from the days before the world settled down and declared itself sane."
— Simon R. Green

"Grow the lawn and mow the lawn
always keep the TV on,
brush your teeth and kill the germs,
poison apples, poison worms."
— Trenton Lee Stewart (The Mysterious Benedict Society)

"In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men."
— A. Lee Martinez (Gil's All Fright Diner)

"Here's a riddle: When is a Croquet Mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be."
— American McGee's Alice