The Shuddering Quotes

“relationships were complicated, volatile things. They were riddled with lies, with hidden secrets, ones you only found out about when it was too late.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Shuddering

“It sounded almost human, like a valley of people moaning before death.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Shuddering

“He was too busy listening to her hum, her singing blocking out the silence of winter, distracting him from the tearing of his own flesh.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Shuddering

“Passive-aggressiveness had slithered into his bloodstream, infecting him like a disease.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Shuddering

“Thirty minutes before sundown, they completed digging and packing their shelter in the snow. With the tarp secured over it, Ryan could only hope it would be enough to shelter them from the cold. He’d watched enough survival shows to know how to navigate down a snowy mountain, and he knew the best way to live through an avalanche, but he’d be damned if he could recall an episode that taught him how to fend off man-eating hellions in knee-deep powder.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Shuddering

“The monsters of his youth were chasing him. They were hungry. They were real.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Shuddering

“the world won’t crumble if you show some weakness.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Shuddering

“But she continued to stare at the shuddering pine in the distance. Her eyes wide. So impossibly wide.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Shuddering

“If they didn’t starve, they’d freeze. And if those two fates didn’t get them first, the beasts that lingered in the trees would.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Shuddering

“It was one of those storms people never forgot, the kind that refused to let up until the food and firewood were gone.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Shuddering

“And Sawyer had been even worse. He had scared his mother half to death when she found a dead bird stuffed in their freezer between two pints of Blue Bell ice cream, frozen solid in a ziplock bag.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Shuddering

“They only come when it snows, his dad had told him, repeating the stories his own father had whispered into his ear in the dead of winter. As a kid, Don assumed it was why he and his family packed up their stuff and left the cabin when the weather got bad. But as he grew older, he reasoned the stories away. Myth. Legend. Whatever he called them in the past made no difference.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Shuddering

“The drips of blood that trailed him like scarlet breadcrumbs assured him that this wasn’t a dream.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Shuddering

“If I told you what happened, you would never leave this room again.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Shuddering

“I have my radar set to batshit. I can smell a psycho from a mile away.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Shuddering

“ABOUT THE AUTHOR Born in Ciechanów, Poland, Ania Ahlborn is also the author of the supernatural thrillers Seed and The Neighbors. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of New Mexico, enjoys gourmet cooking, baking, drawing, traveling, movies, and exploring the darkest depths of the human (and sometimes inhuman) condition. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico,”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Shuddering

“Now there’s a man who’s money I wouldn’t mind spending.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Shuddering