Dead Leaves Quotes

“Halloween is controllable horror.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Dead Leaves: 9 Tales from the Witching Season

“Halloween provides us with the choice to be scared, or to scare others. It allows us to vicariously slip behind the mask and see the world through the eyes of things that evoke fear in others. It allows us to be scared out of our wits, safe in the knowledge that it isn't real.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Dead Leaves: 9 Tales from the Witching Season

“Everything's dark, nothing is bright," the child sang, "No one can stop us on Halloween night." Evelyn smiled. "This is our night, this is our street, give us some money, or candy to eat." The”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Dead Leaves: 9 Tales from the Witching Season

“It is not how you walk, or where, or how far. It is all in the sound of the steps and how the night receives them.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Dead Leaves: 9 Tales from the Witching Season

“Sometimes there's enough darkness in the world without adding to it under the guise of something pretty,”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Dead Leaves: 9 Tales from the Witching Season

“She'll what? If she really is a ghost then she can't do anything to me, right? All she can do is say 'Boo!”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Dead Leaves: 9 Tales from the Witching Season

“We control it. It's a safe kind of scary.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Dead Leaves: 9 Tales from the Witching Season

“Halloween is controllable horror. We allow the monsters their time in the moonlight until we send them away.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Dead Leaves: 9 Tales from the Witching Season

“For one night, we get to retreat from the world of adult responsibility and enjoy being the monsters.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Dead Leaves: 9 Tales from the Witching Season

“He loved autumn; the way the leaves turned a panoply of colors before the trees let them go; the earthy aroma the breeze ferried across the fields; the crackle of frost, the clean taste in the air, the way the streets looked after the rain had come and gone.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Dead Leaves: 9 Tales from the Witching Season

“Some of the time it feels as if we're just here to bear witness to the acts of monsters. To validate their efforts by seeing what they've done.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Dead Leaves: 9 Tales from the Witching Season

“In a splintered cradle to the left of a shard of moonlight, a doll had been painted to look like a whore.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Dead Leaves: 9 Tales from the Witching Season

“If this century was to be known by anything other than its fair share of atrocities and diseases, then surely the gullibility of the weak-minded would qualify as a footnote.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Dead Leaves: 9 Tales from the Witching Season

“All my talent, if that's what you'd call it, goes only one way these days. Into the worst kind of darkness.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Dead Leaves: 9 Tales from the Witching Season