The Nightmare Chronicles Quotes

“There are prisons within prisons, and skins within skins. You can’t always see who someone is just by looking in his eyes. Sometimes, others are there.”
― Douglas Clegg, The Nightmare Chronicles: Thirteen Tales of Horror and Suspense

“My mind was red paint across black night.”
― Douglas Clegg, The Nightmare Chronicles: Thirteen Tales of Horror and Suspense

“He believed the best use of human beings was as compost or incubators.”
― Douglas Clegg, The Nightmare Chronicles: Thirteen Tales of Horror and Suspense

“Hey, any day you get through the afternoon here’s a good day.”
― Douglas Clegg, The Nightmare Chronicles: Thirteen Tales of Horror and Suspense

“God was like the phone company: You paid your bill, and sometimes you got cut off anyway.”
― Douglas Clegg, The Nightmare Chronicles: Thirteen Tales of Horror and Suspense

“Do you know that when a man becomes old, he begins to remember what he believed in as a child and it all comes back to him?”
― Douglas Clegg, The Nightmare Chronicles: Thirteen Tales of Horror and Suspense

“Love,” he said, “is the darkest gift. It takes all that you are, and it destroys you.”
― Douglas Clegg, The Nightmare Chronicles: Thirteen Tales of Horror and Suspense

“Frailty and cruelty are our gifts to the world. Who is to say that suffering is not the greatest of all gifts from the gods?”
― Douglas Clegg, The Nightmare Chronicles: Thirteen Tales of Horror and Suspense

“Of the things that are man’s achievements, the greatest is suffering.”
― Douglas Clegg, The Nightmare Chronicles: Thirteen Tales of Horror and Suspense

“She found Lucy to be about as interesting as a toothache.”
― Douglas Clegg, The Nightmare Chronicles: Thirteen Tales of Horror and Suspense

“Chose me because I was good at it. At suffering. That is whom the gods choose.”
― Douglas Clegg, The Nightmare Chronicles: Thirteen Tales of Horror and Suspense