Richard Chizmar > Quotes

“Los secretos son un problema, quizá el mayor problema de todos. Pesan sobre la conciencia y roban espacio al mundo.”
― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Button Box

“Is she thinking these thoughts or listening to them? It’s suddenly hard to tell.”
― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather

“If I was shadows and moonbeams and tales of death and horror, she was sunshine and laughter and the yellow brick road from The Wizard of Oz . We balanced each other.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” —Stephen King”
― Richard Chizmar, The Long Way Home

“Stephen King once wrote: “I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, did you?”
― Richard Chizmar, Becoming the Boogeyman

“When a monster is finally caught against all odds, it feels like magic.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“Innocence once lost, can never be regained. Darkness, once gazed upon, can never be lost.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“The air smelled of ripe apples and dying leaves and wood smoke. The wind made you ache in some place deeper than your bones.”
― Richard Chizmar

“The question that had bloomed in her mind while sitting on the bench that long ago summer day resurfaced—and rather rudely—earlier this morning as Gwendy was busy cushioning the button box in her carry-on bag with rolled up wads of socks and sweaters: How much of her life is her own doing, and how much the doing of the box with its treats and buttons?”
― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather

“But what if what she believes to be true...simply isn't?”
― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather

“most of the men wearing the standard autumn uniform of an adult New England male—camouflage”
― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather

“You forget when you’re young. The world is too big, the sky too bright, the days and nights filled with too many possibilities. So you go where the wind carries you, and you forget. Sometimes even magic slips away.”
― Richard Chizmar, The Long Way Home

“I believe that most small towns wear two faces: a public one comprised of verifiable facts involving historical timelines, demographics, matters of economy and geography; and a hidden, considerably more private face formed by a fragile spiderweb of stories, memories, rumors, and secrets passed down from generation to generation, whispered by those who know the town best.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“I’m suddenly aware I’m breathing heavy.”
― Richard Chizmar, Shivers VIII

“Sometimes when you’re young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you’re living on someplace magical like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two. —Hearts in Atlantis”
― Richard Chizmar, The Long Way Home

“Voice recorder entry #6B (4:51am, Saturday, July 12, 2017) (Mumbling) I can’t. I don’t want to. They’re…my friends.”
― Richard Chizmar, Widow's Point

“Life was such a wheel…and it always, at the end, came round to the same place again. —The Stand”
― Richard Chizmar, The Long Way Home

“Standing there in that frozen moment of space and time, I realized how vast the world around me really was and that one day soon I’d be leaving this place I’d always called home, to venture out on my own. My friends would also be scattered to the four winds, and some I would never see or talk to again. Our parents and brothers and sisters would grow old and eventually we’d have to say goodbye to them, too. Nothing would ever be the same.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“President with the IQ of a turnip and the temperament of a schoolyard bully”
― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather

“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. —Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption”
― Richard Chizmar, The Long Way Home

“I just knew there was… something inside of me, this bad thing, and it just needed, and I couldn’t tell anyone about it. I’d try to keep it locked up, behind a door, but sometimes I wasn’t strong enough.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there…and still on your feet. —The Stand”
― Richard Chizmar, The Long Way Home

“I’d never done well with crying women. They scared me.”
― Richard Chizmar, Becoming the Boogeyman

“The author J. R. R. Tolkien had a word for that feeling—eucatastrophe. The opposite of catastrophe, and all the more important because it’s even rarer.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“George Morgan, who was just thirty years old when he engraved the likeness of Anna Willess Williams, a Philadelphia matron, to go on what you’d”
― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather

“According to a 2009 study conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, nearly 16 percent of American serial killers were adopted as children, while adoptees represent only 2 percent of the general population.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“Maybe that's what grieving is all about: never forgetting what we've lost.”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“Standing there in my pajamas, I thought: This is what you do when you have a family. You get up when it’s still dark outside and you go to work so the people you love can have a better life. Even when you’re sick or tired and don’t want to. I watched him for a while longer, my heart aching in a way I’d never felt before. “Love you, Dad,”
― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman

“Can an entire city be haunted?” I believe the answer to be an unequivocal yes.”
― Richard Chizmar, Becoming the Boogeyman

“Perhaps Mother Nature also has roots in the angry hearts of her daughters. And perhaps we too have our roots in hers.”
― Richard Chizmar, Cemetery Dance Magazine, Issue 69