Eric > Eric's Quotes

“The squirrel tells lies to both of them, and takes joy in provoking anger.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

“I will call my bowl Hunger,” said Hel. She picked up a knife. “This is called Famine. And my bed is called Sickbed.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

“Their faces were the way women's faces are when they've been talking about you behind your back and they think you've heard: embarrassed, but also a little defiant, as if it were their right.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Buttered, I lie on my single bed, flat, like a piece of toast.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you’ve been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn’t be that hard.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“It doesn’t eat only birds—it mostly eats rats and insects—but they still call it the “Bird-Eating Spider” because the fact that it can eat a bird is the most important thing you need to know about it.”
― David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It

“My hair looked like I had combed it with an angry cat.”
― David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It

“It was a shriek, like microphone feedback. But more organic and pained, like the sound a whale would make if it were on fire.”
― David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It

“I would have waited outside if I’d known, since the potential for really awkward conversation seems pretty high in the waiting room of a psychiatrist’s office.”
― David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It

“There are really only two kinds of monsters in the world, which you already know if you’ve been watching horror movies: Breeders and Non-breeders.”
― David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It

“That is why we fear the zombie. The zombie looks like a man, walks like a man, eats and otherwise functions fully, yet is devoid of the spark. It represents the nagging doubt that lays deep in the heart of even the most zealous believer: behind all of your pretty songs and stained glass, this is what you really are. Shambling meat. Our true fear of the zombie was never that its bite would turn us into one of them. Our fear is that we are already zombies.”
― David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It

“Well, Amy figured you don’t need more than five minutes on this planet to figure out that one thing we know about God—maybe the only thing—is that he favors those who act.”
― David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It

“The bathroom was clean. Well, not clean, but there were no corpses in there.”
― David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It

“We can’t see around walls, we can’t see heat or cold, we can’t see electricity or radio signals, we can’t see at a distance. It is a sense so limited that we might as well not have it, yet we have evolved to depend so heavily on it as a species that all other perception has atrophied.”
― David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It

“She was liquid; a boundless sea in a single body, a deluge in a small room, and I will gladly drown in her, if she grants me the chance.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 2

“You fucking idiot! What does it matter what it costs to kill it? It's not human. It's out of Hell.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 3

“If you were alone on earth, what would you know? What the mirror told you, that's all. The rest would be myth and conjecture.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 3

“Who in their right minds would trust someone who made a profession out of poking around in sick people?”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 4

“But then sanity was a movable feast, wasn't it? One man's madness might be another's politics.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 5

“Maybe if they didn't tell you the stories ... they'd actually go out and do it.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 5

“With Floyd we had three hundred and ninety-eight years between us. All that bitter experience," he said, "and not one of us wise.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 5

“The stench of disinfectant could not entirely mask the odor of human pain.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume 6

“You know, as a child I thought somebody came and took the world away in the night and then came back and unrolled it all again the following morning.”
― Clive Barker, The Damnation Game

“There was a primitive power in naming someone. It gave you a handle on a person.”
― Clive Barker, The Damnation Game

“I feel things other people don’t. I don’t think it’s particularly clever of me, or anything like that. I just do it.”
― Clive Barker, The Damnation Game

“Houses weren’t haunted, only human minds.”
― Clive Barker, The Damnation Game

“Besides, he guessed she wouldn’t have thanked him for delaying his purchase. She needed dope more than she needed him.”
― Clive Barker, The Damnation Game