Doug Murano > Quotes

“Marriage changes things; it’s like a mutation. Sometimes your relationship gets superpowers, but sometimes it goes malignant.”
― Doug Murano, Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders

“The world is a mirror,” he said. “What we see is a reflection of who we are.”
― Doug Murano, Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders

“He saw the basics of her, the very base, and that’s what he wanted. Not the trappings. Not the prettiness. He wanted the deep and dark and ugly. The most honest and primal parts.”
― Doug Murano, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories

“Like a cat, getting the last ounce of enjoyment out of a mouse. Or a gram of enjoyment, I suppose it must be these days. I don’t know, really.”
― Doug Murano, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories

“watching the storm clouds roll in. They softened everything, there was mercy in the dark.”
― Doug Murano, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories

“Every monster dreams. Every monster imagines, aspires.”
― Doug Murano, Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders

“Want to know what should happen? They should tie him up and deliver him to me. Leave a guard to make sure it goes my way. Let me take my time, as much as I need. Save the taxpayers a million or two while I enact the only form of punishment that fits the crime. Ruthless, painful revenge.”
― Doug Murano, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories

“I closed my eyes, held my breath. I have held it ever since.”
― Doug Murano, Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders

“He felt the loyalty we all feel toward unhappiness—the sense that this is where we really belong.” —Graham Greene”
― Doug Murano, Shadows Over Main Street: An Anthology of Small-Town Lovecraftian Terror

“You’re being watched, and what watches you likes you in a bad way.”
― Doug Murano, The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors

“perched on a candelabra”
― Doug Murano, The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors

“Just cut my neck like the stem of a rose and mount the head in a trophy room, already.”
― Doug Murano, Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders

“It’s only when you’ve lost someone, you realize the nonsense of that phrase “it’s a small world.” It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.”
― Doug Murano, Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders