The Light is the Darkness Quotes

“That really your kind of crowd? These effete psychos who want to relive the seedier aspects of the Roman empire?

These are the kind of folks who own tropical islands. Hell, some of them run banana republics for fun. They want a spectacle, I can fill the bill.

Ah yes. Dictators, inbred nobility and other megalomaniacs. Swell friends you got there.

It's a living.”
― Laird Barron, The Light is the Darkness

“Money was a problem. Money was always a problem no matter how many bones he crushed or how much blood he let or dues he paid. The fucking rent was always due.”
― Laird Barron, The Light is the Darkness

“Conrad might be on his way to achieving godhead and wouldn't that be a kick in the ass?”
― Laird Barron, The Light is the Darkness

“Your father had other plans for you. Alas, his breakdown and untimely demise derailed everything he'd worked to accomplish. He would not approve of your quixotic pursuit of Imogene. She became embroiled in his vendetta with the forces of darkness, as it were. No sense following her into oblivion."

Conrad said, "You talk a lot for a guy on oxygen.”
― Laird Barron, The Light is the Darkness

“It grew steadily dimmer, God’s thumb on the dial.”
― Laird Barron, The Light is the Darkness

“The elder Navarro had believed, as did the ancient philosophers of the Far East, that the cosmos ultimately revealed itself as a repeating pattern, an infinitely replicating superstructure contained and embodied in a galaxy, down to a drop of blood.”
― Laird Barron, The Light is the Darkness