Simon Holt > Quotes

“When dark creeps in and eats the light,
Bury your fears on Sorry Night.
For in the winter's blackest hours,
Comes the feasting of the Vours,
No one can see it, the life they stole,
Your body's here but not your soul...”
― Simon Holt, The Devouring

“I know a secret,and secrets breed paranoia.”
― Simon Holt, The Devouring

“If you dont know learn how to be scared, you'll never really learn how to be brave.”
― Simon Holt, The Devouring

“We all have a dark side, Reggie. You. Me. The old lady down the street. Henry. Everyone. We make the choice not to embrace it, but the dark is there. It's always there. Inside us.”
― Simon Holt, The Devouring

“What? Quinn's one of them? I just thought he was an a*shole!”
― Simon Holt, The Devouring

“The dark has teeth and it will bite,
It feasts begins on Sorry Night.
When cold and fear are intertwined,
They'll chew up your heart and feed on your mind.
Where have the souls gone? What do they see?
The gateway to Hell's eternity.”
― Simon Holt, Fearscape

“Lusty blacksmiths and naughty princesses. Now that's scary”
― Simon Holt, The Devouring

“Surrender to your fear so you may triumph over it.”
― Simon Holt, The Devouring

“If you don't learn how to be scared, you'll never really learn how to be brave.”
― Simon Holt, The Devouring

“If you didn't believe in the possibility, you wouldn't have challenged these creatures. And the minute you start to believe in something, it begins to have power over you.”
― Simon Holt, The Devouring

“Fear is the cancer”
― Simon Holt, The Devouring

“Save the soul, kill the monster.”
― Simon Holt, Fearscape

“Devour your fear.”
― Simon Holt, The Devouring

“Surrender to your fear so you may triumph over it.Choose me,open you soul to me, and embrace the Devouring.”
― Simon Holt, The Devouring

“Cole, for Christ's sake, will you stop staring at me like I'm beefcake of the month?”
― Simon Holt, Soulstice

“Only a teen girl would be afraid of an evil hairstylist.”
― Simon Holt, Fearscape

“good people do bad things”
― Simon Holt

“Our sins live with us for eternity, and that is perhaps the most frightening thing of all. - Sims”
― Simon Holt, Soulstice

“I think you inhaled too much lead from those scantron sheets”
― Simon Holt, Soulstice

“We can always count on people to hate and to fear.To harm one another and to be harmed.To kill and be killed.It is what opens the gate.”
― Simon Holt, The Devouring

“Good.I need you to be scared.Very,very scared.And then you'll never be scared again.”
― Simon Holt, The Devouring

“Being scared is practice for being scared.”
― Simon Holt, The Devouring

“It was safe to assume he'd not only read the play but then re-read it, cross-referenced the annotations, and probably joined an online chat group called Buds of the Bard or something equally nerdy”
― Simon Holt, Soulstice

“They lurk in the cold and dark.Hungry and,wicked,they wait for their one chance to devour the weak on Sorry Night.Then the vours feast on a banquet of fear.Your fear.They steal your soul but your body remains.No one knows the difference.”
― Simon Holt, The Devouring

“They'll come." She did not turn around. "I'll be ready”
― simon holt

“Your heart gives you your power, Regina. Follow it, fight with it, and you cannot be defeated”
― Simon Holt, Soulstice

“When darkness comes and eats the light,
bury your fears on sorry night.
Because in the winter's darkest hours,
comes the feasting of the Vours.
You cannot see it, the life they stole.
Your body's there, but not your soul.”
― Simon Holt, The Devouring

“But for all the horrors that Reggie had seen, She had also witnessed the wonder of the human spirit fighting back. It wasn't about eradicating fear; it was about overcoming it. And that was something that was so personal a nature that if she had to keep entering Fearscapes one by one, seeking out the souls trapped in hell one by one, then that was what she would do.”
― Simon Holt, Fearscape

“You went through hell and lived. That leaves marks”
― Simon Holt, Soulstice

“Is my son turning into some kind of monster?”
― Simon Holt, Soulstice