Nightmare Country, Vol. 1 Quotes

“You remember the smell, don’t you? The sweet, putrid sweat of the dance floor? Those scared young boys dancing with one another. Trying to find themselves in each other. And then they would see you. You remember how to be a predator, don’t you, Corinthian?”
― James Tynion IV, Nightmare Country, Vol. 1

“There are the books his victims thought they might have written, if they had survived.”
― James Tynion IV, Nightmare Country, Vol. 1

“Many of the books are not written in words. They are written in notions and intentions. Raw feelings in the direction of story that have not taken any final shape.”
― James Tynion IV, Nightmare Country, Vol. 1

“I’m having some kind of nervous breakdown, but I think I’m okay with that.”
― James Tynion IV, Nightmare Country, Vol. 1

“The Big Apple. How wonderful it will be to take a bite.”
― James Tynion IV, Nightmare Country, Vol. 1

“You enjoyed that, Mr. Ecstacy.”

“I did, Mr. Agony. I always do. Now, who’s next?”
― James Tynion IV, Nightmare Country, Vol. 1

“Dreams are a trap. They comfort and they coddle. They give false hope and false understanding. They are little fictions that satisfy a man’s hunger for meaning. Without providing anything tangible. Anything he can hold in his hands. What matters is chasing the real. It’s what you can touch. What you can feel. Allow me to demonstrate.”
― James Tynion IV, Nightmare Country, Vol. 1

“In these modern times, it behooves a man to make a living doing what he likes to do. And principally, I do this because I like to do this.”
― James Tynion IV, Nightmare Country, Vol. 1

“Look now, Mr. Agony. Isn’t this a sorry sight?”

“I am afraid I cannot see, Mr. Ecstacy.”

“Yes, yes. I forget that you are deprived of some of the more refined senses. For expedience, allow me to describe this scene to you, in all its lurid detail. Here sits Mr. Maxwell. A broken man in a cheap wig and glasses. A weak deception he hoped would keep him safe. Mr. Maxwell has clung for days to the wretched delusion that he could run. A silly little fantasy. A dream. And dreams have done what they always do, Mr. Agony. They have left a man unhinged from the grim reality that lies beneath his own two feet. Helpless to rise above his sorry station.”
― James Tynion IV, Nightmare Country, Vol. 1