Matt Shaw > Quotes

“Whoever said ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me’ clearly hasn’t been on the receiving end of people who spend the vast majority of their time using hateful words.”
― Matt Shaw, The 8th

“You’re bat shit crazy.”
― Matt Shaw, She Loves Me Not

“Funny the things you think about when it is too late.”
― Matt Shaw, Sick Bastards

“I had no time to think about the detective, or the urges, now. Time was ticking on and, more importantly, flesh was starting to rot.”
― Matt Shaw, Art

“I know you’re there,” I whispered. “What do you want?”
― Matt Shaw, The Cabin

“Horror should not make you wish to be bitten by a vampire so you too can sparkle like a little bitch, it shouldn’t make you want your monthly period to see you sprout fur and howl longingly at the moon forever out of reach, and it shouldn’t make you dream of creating fancy love potions to win the man who won’t look at you twice. Horror should make you shit your pants. It should creep you out and make you want to leave the light on, it should make you check under the bed for monsters or intruders, it should make you feel uncomfortable.”
― Matt Shaw, Masters of Horror

“A little eight year old girl laid in her bed clutching onto her teddy bear in the hope it could keep her safe from the monsters that visited during the dark hours.”
― Matt Shaw, Whore

“But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep by holding a chloroform-soaked hankie to his face; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh.”
― Matt Shaw, The Holy F*cking Bible: According to Matt Shaw

“You’re fucking crazy.” “If I am - it’s because you made me so.”
― Matt Shaw, Porn

“She doesn’t need to go to prison. She doesn’t need to be locked away like a wild animal. She just needs help. But that in itself was a problem; despite advances in medicines and science - people still didn’t really understand mental health and, a lot of the time, the people who needed proper help fell by the wayside and ended up being treated just the same as the real monsters of the world.”
― Matt Shaw, A Sting in the Tale: A Collection of Short Stories

“help.” “What is it?” “We’ve broken down just round the corner and have no signal on our phone. Not sure if it’s the weather…”
― Matt Shaw, My Family

“Funny how people consider those who commit suicide to be cowards. I don't. They're the brave ones. They're the ones who are able to stand up and say enough is enough. They're the ones who're able to do something about the hatred they feel for their own lives. I'm envious of them.”
― Matt Shaw, sickER B*stards

“The Bobs of the world were always right, even when they were wrong and knew it.”
― Matt Shaw, The Funhouse

“The man was visibly quaking. And he should be. He knew he was in the wrong. He knew they were all in the wrong. What they were doing was criminal but they got away with it because they hid behind government badges.”
― Matt Shaw, Sick Bastards

“Is it better to know you’re in a dream and know that it won’t last forever, or to think you’re living your life “normally” only to then wake up and discover it had been a dream?”
― Matt Shaw, The Things He Heard: A horror novella

“~ FIN”
― Matt Shaw, The Cabin

“You Americans and your gun laws. So easy to get hold of. No wonder so many people get shot.”
― Matt Shaw, The Farm

“Had you not come back, I would still be at home. I’d be locked away in my misery, mourning you.’ You could have met someone else. You would have met someone else. ‘I don’t want anyone else. Whatever shape you take… No matter what… I would always want you to come home to me.”
― Matt Shaw, My Wife, The Worm: Not Your Average Romance

“A narrow road cut through the village with stoned walls either side; erected in order to keep wondering sheep and cows from venturing into the path of potential oncoming traffic.”
― Matt Shaw, The Rot of Karma: A Psychological Horror

“Oh I’ll ask it but I am far from done with you.’ I don’t say anything else. I just sit there and patiently wait for him to ask his question, whatever it may be. And, with Billy-Ray, it really could be a “whatever”. This is not the first time we have had a conversation and I am sure it will not be the last despite my wishes that it would be. ‘When you talk of the deaths in the book of yours that you write, will you include the ones you are to blame for or will you gloss over those and continue to paint yourself as the true professional people believe you to be?”
― Matt Shaw, Nightmares

“For one I prefer girls with eye-brows. She had none.”
― Matt Shaw, PlentyofFreaks

“Oh I’ll ask it but I am far from done with you.’ I don’t say anything else. I just sit there and patiently wait for him to ask his question, whatever it may be. And, with Billy-Ray, it really could be a “whatever”. This is not the first time we have had a conversation and I am sure it will not be the last despite my wishes that it would be.”
― Matt Shaw, Nightmares

“The wind carried birdsong, their melodies unmoved by the tragedy around them.  It bowed branches and directed the grass in waves, like a landlocked sea; the dark patches of blood resembling oil spills, polluting the natural beauty of this once comforting place. The”
― Matt Shaw, Easter Eggs and Bunny Boilers: A Horror Anthology

“To answer your question: God forgives all of those who are truly repentant.”
― Matt Shaw, Full Moon

“How easy it is to fool a man’s brain.”
― Matt Shaw, F*ck me? F*ck You!

“I can see my car. I can see the sky. I can see the floor. I can see my body. I can see the floor. I can see the infected in the distance. I can see two figures next to my body. I can see the sky. I can see the floor. I head butted the floor. I can see concrete.”
― Matt Shaw, Rotting Dead F*cks

“I’m Chrystianna.’ ‘Pretty name,’ he said. ‘Although I bet it was horrible growing up with it.’ ‘What?”
― Matt Shaw, Quite the Collection: An Extreme Horror from the author of Sick B*stards

“I knew the truth - that the world was being run by sick bastards who’d happily conduct experiments on innocent people just because they have too much time on their hands and a dark curiosity to feed.”
― Matt Shaw, sickER B*stards

“wasn't”
― Matt Shaw, The Tainted Souls

“She’d been diagnosed with cancer, and I told her not to worry for I’d be following her soon after she leaves. Don’t you dare, were her exact words. And I didn’t - even though there was a huge part of me which wished I could just end things. That part now, loudly screaming at me once again; only to be drowned out by my wife saying, Don’t you dare again. Still. The temptation.”
― Matt Shaw, My Wife, The Worm: Not Your Average Romance