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“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Hasn't there always been a moon?"
"Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue...”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.”
― Cormac McCarthy

“You were merely wishing for the end of pain, the monster said. Your own pain. An end to how it isolated you. It is the most human wish of all.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“You’ve always got me”
“Always?”
“Didn’t I just say so?”
“Yes”
“Am I liar? “
“No.” I lied.”
― Clive Barker, Mister B. Gone

“I decided that I would do my best to be the worst thing Hell ever vomited forth.”
― Clive Barker, Mister B. Gone

“My skull was a face that concealed scorpions.”
― Clive Barker, Mister B. Gone

“I will treat you with my knife the way you've treated my pages with your merciless eyes. Backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards.”
― Clive Barker, Mister B. Gone

“Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.”
― Stephen King, The Waste Lands

“This part I will do alone, leaving you behind. Don’t follow. I’m well beyond you now, and traveling very fast.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“In my absence, the surveyor had become a kind of frenzied serial killer of the inanimate.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“The tower, which was not supposed to be there, plunges into the earth in a place just before the black pine forest begins to give way to swamp and then the reeds and wind-gnarled trees of the marsh flats. Beyond the marsh flats and the natural canals lies the ocean and, a little farther down the coast, a derelict lighthouse. All of this part of the country had been abandoned for decades, for reasons that are not easy to relate. Our expedition was the first to enter Area X for more than two years, and much of our predecessors’ equipment had rusted, their tents and sheds little more than husks. Looking out over that untroubled landscape, I do not believe any of us could yet see the threat.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“And at last Lee said, "What are those goddamn things on your head?" He sounded genuinely surprised. "Jesus, Ig. Are those horns?”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“That's what was on the video," Lee said, a little breathlessly. "Horns. Holy fucking shit. I thought it was a bad tape. But it wasn't something wrong with the tape. It was something wrong with you.”
― Joe Hill, Horns