Occultation and Other Stories Quotes

“—Only fools and the dead never change their mind.”
― Laird Barron, Occultation and Other Stories

“I’m not here to warn anybody. I’m here to give you a good ol’ mindfucking, among other things. Think you found the book by accident? There are no accidents around here. Time is a ring. Everything and everyone gets squished under the wheel.”
― Laird Barron, Occultation and Other Stories

“Only fools and the dead never change their mind.”
― Laird Barron, Occultation and Other Stories

“People, bugs. Step back far enough, it’s all the same.”
― Laird Barron, Occultation and Other Stories

“In the animal kingdom, paranoia equaled sanity.”
― Laird Barron, Occultation and Other Stories

“She feared that’s what they’d gradually become—a pair of mated animals who snapped and snarled at one another, who remained together due to instinct, to pure expediency.”
― Laird Barron, Occultation and Other Stories

“Norma claimed there exists a certain quality of grief, so utterly profound, so tragically pure, that it resounds and resonates above and below. A living, bleeding echo. It’s the key to a kind of limbo.”
― Laird Barron, Occultation and Other Stories

“Amidst this reevaluation and reordering, came the fugue, a lunatic element that found genesis in the void between melancholy and nightmare.”
― Laird Barron, Occultation and Other Stories

“Evolution is a circle—we’re sliding back to that endless sea of protoplasmic goop.”
― Laird Barron, Occultation and Other Stories

“When he looked through the scope it was as if the largest part of him dissolved and what remained was the kernel everything sprang from. The cathode stole everything, rendered him nameless, a seed floating on a vast cosmic tidal current.”
― Laird Barron, Occultation and Other Stories