When Things Get Dark Quotes

“Soul searching pairs seductively with large quantities of liquor.”
― Laird Barron, When Things Get Dark

“I mean, pain really should count for something, don’t you think? Considering how much it hurts.”
― Ellen Datlow, When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson

“I think," said Mr. Wong, aware things would be very different by the end of the sentence, "that I am more honest than you." (96)”
― Cassandra Khaw, When Things Get Dark

“Despite what had been visited on her body, she had looked more thoughtful than tortured, even melancholy. "Pitying," someone had told Mr. Carpenter who wished immediately he had not been told such; it unsettled him to think of a corpse despairing over the fortunes of the living. (98)”
― Cassandra Khaw, When Things Get Dark