Not a Speck of Light Quotes

“Your life had ended in violence dozens of times. You briefly perceived this fact, although you couldn’t comprehend its meaning. Not with light and dark bending around you, not while the stars were falling from the sky, not when the ghosts of yourself were jetting from your body in a vapor trail of blood and bone.”
― Laird Barron, Not a Speck of Light

“The crack that runs through everything reaches across all time and space, travels jaggedly through all past and all potentiality. It is the slow fracture in the ice, the worm coring its way through the apple, coring the human heart. It is the following shadow.”
― Laird Barron, Not a Speck of Light

“Humans are genetically predisposed to contest territory, even if the prize is irradiated tracts of scorched earth. We are born to fight, bred to kill. We are the makers of plague, the detonators of artificial suns.”
― Laird Barron, Not a Speck of Light: Stories

“Sometimes the spider cuts the fly from its web. Sometimes nature doesn't sink in those red fangs; sometimes it chooses not to rend with its red claws. A reprieve isn't necessarily the same weight as a pardon. Insrcutability isn't mercy.”
― Laird Barron, Not a Speck of Light: Stories

“Strange things were done in the Land of the Midnight Sun and only the Devil knew why.”
― Laird Barron, Not a Speck of Light: Stories