Dan Poblocki > Quotes

“… we have bad dreams
because our brain is trying to protect us… If we can figure out a way to beat the imaginary monsters … Then the real monsters don’t seem so scary… That’s why we like reading scary stories.”
― Dan Poblocki, The Stone Child

“We ask our brain to stop worrying, stop obsessing, stop dreaming the same scary dreams again and again. But our brain rarely takes requests.”
― Dan Poblocki, The Ghost of Graylock

“Every town has its share of secrets. And when whispered by children in the dead of night, some secrets become stories. They percolate and brew and change. Sometimes, under special circumstances, the stories become legends, destined to survive even as the children who share them grow up and move on.”
― Dan Poblocki, The Ghost of Graylock

“You cannot escape from yourself.”
― Dan Poblocki, The Ghost of Graylock

“Everyone can be weird if you watch them long enough.”
― Dan Poblocki, The Ghost of Graylock

“Just because something is broken doesn't mean it can't be put back together again.”
― Dan Poblocki, You Can't Hide

“Hope is the fuel that keeps us...alive....But the funny thing about hope is that it always comes with a price. Worry. Fear. Anxiety. Once something is important enough to hope for, it attains a power over you.”
― Dan Poblocki, You Can't Hide

“A secret that became a story, a story that became a legend.”
― Dan Poblocki, The Ghost of Graylock

“There's nothing like hurt to help you understand that you're wide awake.”
― Dan Poblocki, You Can't Hide