Devil House

by John Darnielle

any given moment is loaded. You have to look hard at all the details of a scene before it changes on you.

keepsakes are just memory-prompts,

You can’t do this kind of work unless you’re willing to be an intruder once in a while.

Few could have looked on your life with envy, fewer still with scorn: your days were like leaves.

It’s the small favors we do for ourselves that we’ll remember when we’re older.

you want to grow up until it starts really happening, and then it happens.

Wandering around is great, but it’s better to have a destination.