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“Don’t look back. You’ll never see anything but what you’re doing your best to leave behind, and you’re a lot more likely to trip and fall down, which gives it another chance to eat you.”
I’ve never seen a skeleton army, but if they exist, I’m absolutely positive they’d be marching on Ohio. There’s nothing else to do in Ohio. It’s just corn, corn, skeleton army, possibly evil corn maze, football, corn.
“Okay, first, this is Ohio, there is no tourism. There’s just bored teenagers looking for someplace to go on a Friday night.
A cryptozoologist is always prepared for mayhem, whatever form it takes.
“Never go into a book. Either it’s a dimensional portal, which is bad, or it’s some sort of Dungeons and Dragons-style mimic-thing, which is also bad, although in a less ‘we’ll never find your body’ sort of a way.”
“Death is not the last great adventure. Death is the natural consequence of getting the last great adventure wrong.”
“Life is a death sentence. Get as many stays of execution as you possibly can.”
“There’s nothing like moonlight and monsters to remind a girl why she loves her job.”
“This is like the American Ninja Warrior of homework, and I hate it,” said Sam.
There was a time when I thought I was the smart one in my family. Now I just think I’m the one who was saving up all her stupidity to use it in one gloriously impressive display of What Not To Do.
foundations we construct from the dust of bad ideas and painful choices will be strong enough to hold up our futures. They have to be.
There’s not a chosen one. There never was. There’s just people, all over the world, trying their best to make sure the sun comes up tomorrow. We do the job because we know the job exists, and once you know the job exists, it’s hard to pretend it doesn’t matter.
“Family is more than what’s in your blood. Family is what’s in your heart, and who you reach for when the sun goes down.”
