Sheryl Scarborough > Sheryl's Quotes

“Her face was a grimace of surprised pain as she slid unconscious down the back of the tub and under the water.
I held her under for several minutes after the blow, watching as the water went pink, then red, and finally crimson with blood.”
― Jared S. Anderson, Beautiful Monster

“They want to be stimulated. They want to read something that can get under their skin and hang out there for a while.”
― Alistair Cross

“I think horror, when done well, is one of the most direct and honest ways to get to the core of the human experience because terror reduces all of us to our most authentic forms.”
― Alistair Cross

“.” I watched her sip at the drink some more. She was strong, healthy, but also petite enough that I was certain I could overpower her. I’d made the right decision not to tranquilize her, I thought. Slipping some powerful barbiturate into a mixed drink wasn’t something I was above, but it always felt like such a lost opportunity. I liked the fight, the tightening and clenching of a woman’s body as she writhed for freedom. I felt the slow swelling of arousal between my legs and made no effort to disguise it.”
― Alistair Cross, Beautiful Monster

“Only I was capable of saving her now, and that, as far as anyone could argue, may have made me worse than all the devils and the demons, but it also, more accurately, made me better than all the angels and gods.”
― Jared S. Anderson, Beautiful Monster

“Self-confidence is usually little more than wishful thinking in a thigh-high pair of Come F*ck Me boots.”
― Alistair Cross

“I think that the best fiction is directly rooted in an ability to identify and tell the psychological truth about people.”
― Alistair Cross

“I have a file in my phone that I’m always adding things to. People accuse me of texting too much but nine times out of ten, I’m not texting anyone. I’m recording ideas.”
― Alistair Cross