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“Something inside the mug. Small and whip thin. It lashed against my upper lip before scraping my front teeth, slimy and foul-tasting. I jerked the mug away from my mouth. The coffee I hadn’t been able to swallow streamed down my chin. The liquid I did swallow came back up in a gurgling, choking cough. I peered into the mug. A circular ripple spread across the coffee’s surface and splashed against the mug’s rim. I tilted the mug, and the thing inside breached the surface—a slick shimmer of gray rising and falling in the mud-brown liquid. I dropped the mug and backed away from the table as coffee rushed across its surface. Riding the wave, like some small sea serpent washing ashore, was a baby snake. It”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“People, generally speaking, suck.”
― Riley Sager, Survive the Night

“I know you think you are. That you share a bond unique to her nurses. It’s not. She’s done this kind of thing before, going back decades. She’s smarter than she appears, as I’m sure you know. Some would even call her wily.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“don’t mean to sound so angry. In fact, I don’t mean to speak at all. The words simply roar out of me, fueled by a fiery blend of alcohol and unease.”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake

“Houses are always changing. Coats of paint. Rows of laminate. Rolls of carpet. They cover up a home’s stories and secrets, rendering them silent until someone comes along to reveal them.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“Would I ever lead you astray?”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“Those aren’t rocks rising out of the wet sand. They’re something else. A hand. A foot. A head. Humped beneath the sand is the corpse they’re attached to. And even before I begin to scream, I know with dreadful certainty that I’m looking at the body of Mary Milton.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“You’re a good girl, Kit-Kat,” he says before kissing me on the cheek. “You always have been. I should have told you that more. I regret that now. I regret a lot of things. But you? You’ve always been my pride and joy.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“Anything will do. Goodbye. Good riddance. Fuck off. Anything but this hostile silence that makes me feel like nothing. Worse than nothing. Invisible. That’s how I feel. I leave after that, not bothering to say goodbye. I don’t want to be met with silence when my father refuses to say it back to”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“He was still seen as weird.
If he was noticed at all.
[...]
Flipping through the book, reading page after page of spirits with names like djinn and stafie, he realized he wasn't the only one who didn't feel seen. That the world was filled with entities who were here but invisible, present but ignored.
[...]
She wouldn't understand that he sees ghosts as, no pun intended, kindred spirits. That when he opens The Giant Book and sees illustrations of all these scary, fantastical, misunderstood spirits, it feels like they could be the friends he lacks.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“I think she's going to say something about Him.  Most likely because of the nightmare, which lingers sticky on my skin like drying perspiration.  I brace myself to hear her tell me that He's resurfaced, as I always knew He would.  It doesn't matter that He's dead.  That I gladly watched Him die.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

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― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“You don’t think Maggie has a problem?” “She has imaginary friends and trouble making real ones.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“Kill time before it kills you.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“Twenty-five years ago, my family lived in a house named Baneberry Hall, situated just outside the village of Bartleby, Vermont. We moved in on June 26. We fled in the dead of night on July 15. Twenty days. That’s how long we lived in that house before we became too terrified to stay a minute longer.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“It didn’t matter that all of Boston whispered about how she had taken up with one of the servants, scandalizing her family and edging herself to the brink of being disowned.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“And what a lovely body it is. I suspect it’ll make things easy for me.” Len looks down at Katherine’s breasts with an exaggerated leer. Seeing him do it unleashes an anger I’ve probably been keeping in my entire life. Not just at him, although he’s left me plenty to be angry at, but at all men who think life is somehow easier for women, especially the pretty ones.“Easy?” I say. “You have no idea how hard it is to be a woman. Or how maddening it is to always feel at risk because that’s just how our fucked-up society is. Trust me, you’re not equipped to handle it. Wait until you have to walk down the street alone at night or stand on a subway platform and wonder if one—or more—of the men around you will try to harass you. Or assault you. Or kill you just like you killed those three girls who are now somewhere in that lake.”
― Riley Sager

“Drinking made the circumstances of my widowhood feel distant, like it was a vaguely remembered nightmare I’d woken from long ago.”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake

“It sounds romantic through the soft gauze of time. In truth, it was probably wretched.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“E como eu poderia me tornar uma grande escritora sem ter sentido na pela nenhuma experiência que me servisse de inspiração para escrever?”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“How twenty days inside its walls would become a waking nightmare. Had we known any of that, we would have turned around, left Baneberry Hall, and never come back.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“The unofficial motto in our household was “Why bother if you’re not going to give it your all?”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake

“Although I loved my father unconditionally, I also thought he was the most dishonest man I've ever known. That was hard for adolescent me to wrap my head around. It's still hard in adulthood.”
― Riley Sager, Home Before Dark

“I haven’t forgotten that you killed me.”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake

“If that’s the case,” she says, “then you need to read more.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“É horrível uma pessoa não viver a vida que deveria viver. Pesa a vida de um homem.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“Did they notice anything out of the ordinary about the place? Anything at all?” “Just that Virginia Hope’s room had recently been cleaned. One of the cops smelled floor polish when they brought her upstairs.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“Because I enjoyed it.”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake

“From my predecessor. I poured the drinks, and he told me stories about this place. Another reason I took the job.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“There are ghosts everywhere,” Ezra Hawthorne tells him, “if you just know where to look.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night