stix_antics

“The ocean is everywhere. Not only does it stretch to the horizon in all directions, it’s under everything as well. I don’t mean underground, I mean — it’s fundamental, you might say. If what’s around us is a picture, then this is what it’s drawn on. Reverend Mapple had a word for it, the subjectile. Lottie said it was like, if you could cut a hole in the air, black water would come pouring out of it.”
― John Langan, The Fisherman

“I have been sometimes way too attracted by my own villains because in a way they seem to hold the secret to the heart of the narrative.”
― Peter Straub

“There was comfort in ignorance, in thinking the world a certain way and not knowing any different.”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“No matter how bleak or dire, end-of-the-world scenarios appeal to us because we take meaning from the end... there's also undeniable allure to witnessing the beginning of the end and perishing alone with everyone and everything else.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World