What the Hell Did I Just Read (John Dies at the End, #3)

by David Wong

the creatures that visit you in the night are either manifestations of your own anxiety or are making your anxieties manifest just to screw with you. Either way, the call is always coming from inside the house.

Amy had long ago learned the secret to reading people’s minds, a mystical two-step process that involved 1) shutting her mouth and 2) listening to what they say.

It does not take any special intelligence or talent to deceive us. We would do well to remember this.

We had gotten a break from the rain, which had turned into the kind of delicate drizzle that feels like a ghost is silently sneezing in your face.

“Sometimes the best ‘help’ you can offer is to get your own self to safety and not add to the pile of victims somebody else has got to clean up. Problem isn’t that there’s not enough heroes in the world, problem is too many dumb people assume they are one.”

We will live and die according to how we interpret the unfamiliar. All of human culture is nothing more than that very process, playing out again and again.