Amy > Amy's Quotes

“It seemed she was a real person after all, a solid human being, moving in and out of the orbits of others. No matter that she so often felt herself to be living half a life, to be a half-light.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

“But ignorance is not bliss, only a deeper kind of terror.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

“...he meant to give meaning to a fable; he meant to hunt down a creature that loped through children’s nightmares, that populated campfire tales, that existed in the same universe as stones who could mate with planets and father mountains and men.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees

“You’re afraid of moths?” He nodded yes and winced a little. “But nobody’s afraid of moths.” “I am,” he whispered, and he looked behind us, as if afraid that one might be listening.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

“The Salem witch trials have long been seen as the last manifestation of backward-looking Puritanism. So they were. But rage, bitterness, and envy produced by deep loss, on many levels including the individual and familial as well as the social and national, had fueled and attracted the murderous hostility.”
― Francis Hill

“Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“So you see, fear is just another manifestation of insecurity. What humans want most of all, is to be right. Even if we’re being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters around the next corner ready to tear us apart, we would literally prefer to be right about the monsters, than to be shown to be wrong in the eyes of others and made to look foolish.”
― David Wong

“I refuse to support the poltergeist industry, so would sooner sleep in a cardboard box than at the Belle Grove Plantation or the Albert Shafsky House, or any of the other places listed in the Hundred Most Haunted Hotels and B&Bs in America, none of which is named the Scarriott for some reason.”
― David Sedaris, Calypso