“Like meeting God finally and learning he hates you.”
― Negative Space
― Negative Space
“Madness, chaos, bone-deep mayhem, devastation of innumerable souls—while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page. Fiction, unable to compete with the world for vividness of pain and lasting effects of fear, compensates in its own way.”
― Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
― Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
“Even the nights above the great roofs of the town seemed merely the uppermost level of an earthbound estate, at most an old attic in which the stars were useless heirlooms and the moon a dusty trunk of dreams.”
― Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
― Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
“In Los Angeles, the stars were below. Everything above was just a poorly lit backdrop.”
― The Nameless Dark: A Collection
― The Nameless Dark: A Collection
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