Leigh Nichols > Quotes

“Oh, we all are, my young friend! We all deceive. Some of us deceive the whole world, every single fellow creature we meet. Some of us deceive only selected people, wives and lovers, or mothers and fathers. And some of us deceive only ourselves. But none of us is totally honest with everyone all the time, in all matters. Hell, the need to deceive is just one more curse that our sorry species has to bear.”
― Leigh Nichols, Twilight Eyes: A Thriller

“Laughter is a balm for the afflicted, the best defense against despair, the only medicine for melancholy.”
― Leigh Nichols, The Eyes of Darkness

“The entire world wasn’t after them. It only seemed that way.”
― Leigh Nichols, The Servants of Twilight

“Kelsko was a toad. But he was proud. Kelsko was a pathological liar, but he was not a sucker for the lies of others, the way most liars were, for he had not lost the ability to perceive the difference between truth and falsehood. He simply had no respect for that difference.”
― Leigh Nichols, Twilight Eyes: A Thriller

“Joking in the midst of disaster,’ she said. ‘“Laughter is a balm for the afflicted, the best defense against despair, the only medicine for melancholy.”
― Leigh Nichols, The Eyes of Darkness

“The drugs don’t destroy brain cells so much as they . . . eat away at their souls, leave them empty and purposeless.”
― Leigh Nichols, Shadow Fires

“She was afraid that she would be inept, clumsy, ridiculous, foolish in bed. She told herself that sex was just like riding a bicycle, impossible to unlearn, but the frivolousness of that analogy didn’t increase her self-confidence.”
― Leigh Nichols, The Eyes of Darkness

“A gray day in the spirit world.”
― Leigh Nichols, The Servants of Twilight

“I happen to believe that individuals are more apt to act responsibly and morally than institutions ever do, which at least puts us on the side of justice. And I also believe individuals are always smarter and better adapted to survival, at least in the long run, than any institution.”
― Leigh Nichols, The Eyes of Darkness

“Elliot grinned. ‘I’m one of the founding partners of Stryker, West, Dwyer, Coffey, and Nichols.”
― Leigh Nichols, The Eyes of Darkness

“It’s as if . . . the night itself is watching us .”
― Leigh Nichols, The Eyes of Darkness

“Its appearance was so numbingly horrific that she, unlike Whitney, was unable to scream; she tried, but her voice failed her. The darkness and rain mercifully concealed many details of the mutant form, but she had an impression of a massive and misshapen head, jaws that resembled a cross between those of a wolf and a crocodile, and an abundance of deadly teeth. Shirtless and shoeless, clad only in jeans, it was a few inches taller than Eric had been, and its spine curved up into hunched and deformed shoulders. There was an immense expanse of breastbone that looked as if it might be covered with horns or spines of some sort, and with rounded knobby excrescences. Long and strangely jointed arms hung almost to its knees. The hands were surely just like the hands of demons who, in the fiery depths of hell, cracked open human souls and ate the meat of them.”
― Leigh Nichols, Shadowfires