Christopher Rice > Quotes

“If you spend enough time in the past, everyone turns into a villain,”
― Christopher Rice, The Moonlit Earth

“Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that’s appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider.”
― Christopher Rice

“Apologies aren’t worth shit. Apologies are a string of words people put together so they can off-load their guilt in five minutes.”
― Christopher Rice, Bone Music

“That’s what guilt truly is, Scott realizes, a fishhook’s tug on the third or fourth minute of every happy moment.”
― Christopher Rice, The Vines

“I wondered if I was more addicted to being sad than I was to bourbon or cocaine.”
― Christopher Rice, Light Before Day

“When we hurt people just to punish them, Luanne used to say, we create a darkness that will live on long after our reasons for giving birth to it have faded.”
― Christopher Rice, Bone Music

“I fear horror became so inextricably related to splatter punk in the late 1980s that a large segment of the audience turned away from it. And thriller became the more comfortable, cozier label because it promised a resolution, a happy ending. Horror came to mean, “I’m going to leave your ass out here in the dark with no way to get home. And one of your legs is missing.”
― Christopher Rice

“I think you write because it’s easier than talking,”
― Christopher Rice, A Density of Souls

“A sense of peace comes over her. She realizes, for the first time in her life, that deciding to be strong doesn’t mean you get to decide what you’ll endure and when.”
― Christopher Rice, Blood Echo

“Somewhere out there, she thinks, there must be a man who wasn’t raised to believe his every cough in a woman’s presence is somehow a gift to her.”
― Christopher Rice, Bone Music

“That’s the thing people don’t understand about rape. It’s the feeling of having hate, someone else’s hate, inside of you, and you try to gather every part of you into the space that’s left over, and the longer it goes on the space gets smaller and smaller.”
― Christopher Rice, Blood Echo

“So far the process has unfolded without a hitch, in meetings much like this one, while Cole stares out the sea-facing glass wall, wondering what’s become of his ambitions and his father’s legacy, a legacy that includes inventing a drug that revolutionized the treatment of HIV throughout the world.”
― Christopher Rice, Bone Music

“But in general, who’s to say what’s not gay enough? And how do we even raise that question without raising the far more perilous one of, “Is it too gay?”
― Christopher Rice

“She doesn’t have to work to blend in because in the French Quarter, all you have to do to blend in is dance with the chaos.”
― Christopher Rice, Kiss the Flame

“So busy looking for ghosts in the attic, we never think to look in the ground.”
― Christopher Rice, The Vines

“the heavens rise.”
― Christopher Rice, The Heavens Rise

“Copper Pot, which stinks because I hear they have good pie.”
― Christopher Rice, Bone Music

“How eating became a source of constant fear and worry. There’s a shot of her standing outside the window of a New York deli, staring at the sandwiches inside like an orphan watching a happy family enjoy Christmas dinner.”
― Christopher Rice, Bone Music

“Forcing breath into her lungs, she slides into the passenger seat. She wants to meet Luke’s joke with one of her own, wants to look him in the eye and return his sheepish smile. But she can’t. She can’t because the world seems too small all of a sudden. Because her life, once again, has been reduced to a thin stream moving through a channel carved by psychopaths.”
― Christopher Rice, Bone Music

“You can admit that what happened to you made you stronger without celebrating the people who did those things to you.”
― Christopher Rice, Bone Music

“Yeah, now that you’re not sleeping with him anymore, it doesn’t seem like such a great idea, does it?”
― Christopher Rice, Bone Music

“It was kinda perfect. When we weren’t rocking each other’s world in the bedroom, we went off and did our own thing. We were married on the weekends, she liked to say. Any more than that and I would’ve gotten in the way of her reading.”
― Christopher Rice, Bone Music

“...You need a quiet place where you can find someone who will listen, someone who will make you feel less like a mistake in a universe intended for assholes and Marines.”
― Christopher Rice, Blind Fall

“Dream big or die in your sleep.”
― Christopher Rice, Bone Music

“The light in the darkness, as Stephen explained it, did not chase away the shadows of fear and regret: It merely illuminated the fears worth fighting. It lit the paths dictated by fate and choice, rather than casting a celestial glow on the way to a better and more perfect world. Although”
― Christopher Rice, A Density of Souls

“You told me about what you called the light in the darkness. About how life was neither good nor bad, but a combination of both and occasionally good things pop up in the middle of tragedy, but they still don’t make tragedy go away. They can’t protect you. They’re just light. But what you didn’t say is that sometimes, certain people can be a light in the darkness. There are some people in this world who are worth saving when other people decide they shine the wrong kind of light on the wrong”
― Christopher Rice, A Density of Souls

“Rowe is the last name of a Canadian author who wrote a vampire novel her grandmother had loved.”
― Christopher Rice, Bone Music

“You never hate someone that much unless you’re afraid of him.”
― Christopher Rice, A Density of Souls

“Snarky Snarkerson!”
― Christopher Rice, The Surrender Gate

“people who’d been through extreme instances of abuse sometimes lost the ability to detect the smaller abuses, the signs that someone wasn’t truly loving or a good match. It’s why it could be so hard for them to build lives better than what they’d been through. So hard for them to move on.”
― Christopher Rice, Bone Music