The Nightmare King Quotes

“You’ve been to hell and back. Those scars on your arms are the marks that appear when you suffer so much pain, it literally kills you. Yet you returned. And now your soul has the depth that can only come with dying. You paid the ultimate sacrifice for someone else’s cruelty. Yet you remain here in the world that harmed you so that you can do for others what no one would do for you.”
― Heather Killough-Walden, The Nightmare King

“There was a song by someone in the nineties called “Blood Makes Noise.” Its lyrics talked about the way, when the shit hits the fan, the blood rushes through your ears and you can’t hear anything else. Like when a doctor is telling you that you have cancer. Or a judge is delivering a nasty verdict.”
― Heather Killough-Walden, The Nightmare King

“Well, everything he’d told her was bat shit. But… if Addie had learned anything over the last twenty years, it was that life was bat shit. It was so much worse than people thought, and so much better than they dreamed. And there was more to it, more in every sense, than limited minds imagined”
― Heather Killough-Walden, The Nightmare King