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“The illusion of hope is Hell's greatest joy.”
― Greg F. Gifune

“After all, Goodness is a state of grace. Evil, is a state of mind.”
― Greg Gifune

“Hans Christian Andersen said 'Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.' Maybe he was right, maybe not. Either way, just remember: enchanting as they may be, in fairytales the forests are always dark.”
― Greg F. Gifune, Gardens of Night

“Isn't it strange how silence, in a way, has a sound of its own?”
― Greg Gifune

“We were all the same, it seemed to me, all of us dented and scratched and damaged, held together with pins and duct tape, the walking wounded making one last stand in the dark before giving in to the inevitable".”
― Greg Gifune

“Truth always comes with some measure of pain”
― Greg F. Gifune, Kingdom of Shadows

“We all serve one master, and I've come to learn that it rarely turns out to be the one we were counting on.”
― Greg F. Gifune, Kingdom of Shadows

“Just because Shangri-La may not exist doesn’t mean we shouldn’t keep looking for it, because maybe that’s exactly where it does exist, in the striving.”
― Greg F. Gifune

“Funny thing, time, how it all fit together despite such arbitrary beginnings and endings, the whole of it played out and calculated down to the very second, each breath, every sunset, dream and waking moment designed, the beat of every heart accounted for, each life a preordained piece of a much larger puzzle, a precisely measured unit in the infinite vacuum of space and time.”
― Greg F. Gifune, Long After Dark

“I have to get them out. It’s the only way I know how to do it. Ever since I was a little boy, I’ve written things down. Thoughts, dreams, stories, poems, all of it written down, pounded out on old typewriters or scribbled here or there on pads and scraps of paper, like once I’d written it down I’d be free of it somehow.”
― Greg F. Gifune

“Am I dreaming? The nightmares don’t stop anymore, so it’s hard to tell. They quite down now and then, but they’re always here. Screeching in my head, the constant din echoes through my skull like the deafening clamour of giant invisible machines. Makes it difficult to tell where the world of shadows end and reality begins.”
― Greg F Gifune

“Fear does funny things to people. Shit, Dahmer was cooking and eating people in the middle of an apartment building. Imagine what you can get away with in a no man’s land.”
― Greg F. Gifune, Children of Chaos

“But it's funny how even after all these years you find yourself wondering just how well you know anyone. Hell, we've all been tight since we we're kids - been through a lot together - but we still have secrets, don't we? All of us. None of us are ever exactly, precisely what we claim to be, are we? We're one way with some people, another way with other people, maybe another way still when we're all alone. That's what it boils down to fellas. At night, when you're lying there in bed looking at the ceiling, remembering the day, thinking back through things you did and what lies ahead, when it's just you and whatever god you pray to in the dark ...that's when all the masks are peeled away and it's just you. Just you..., and whoever...or whatever you are.”
― Greg F. Gifune, The Bleeding Season

“You tell yourself it is a bad dream.  You tell yourself you have died—you, not the others—and have waked up in hell.  But you know better.  You know better.  There is an end to dreams, and there is no end to this.  And when people die they are dead—as who should know better than you?” —Jim Thompson The Getaway”
― Greg F. Gifune, The Bleeding Season

“It’s getting cold.” “Yeah, I like it though.”  Sensing my discomfort he said, “Alan, it is what is.  We just got to keep moving.  Like sharks, right?  We stop, we die.”
― Greg F. Gifune, The Bleeding Season

“None of us are ever far from death. Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, our vulnerability is profound and intrinsic, our time on this Earth borrowed, fleeting.”
― Greg F. Gifune, Children of Chaos

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“But it's funny how even after all these years you find yourself wondering just how well you know anyone. Hell, we've all been tight since we we're kids - been through a lot together - but we still have secrets, don't we? All of us. None of us are ever exactly, precisely what we claim to be, are we? We're one way with some people, another way with other people, maybe another way still when we're all alone. That's what it boils down to fellas. At night, when you're lying there in bed looking at the ceiling, remembering the day, thinking back through things you did and what lies ahead, when it's just you and whatever god you pray to in the dark ...that's when all the masks are peeled away and it's just you. Just you..., and whoever...or whatever you are.”
― Greg F. Gifune, The Bleeding Season

“You understand nothing. An odd smile here along her face. “But you will.”
― Greg F. Gifune, The Bleeding Season

“It’s like at night, when it’s raining and there’s cars and headlights moving through the darkness, through the window. Everything’s shiny and wet and looks so new. Undamaged, you know? Alive. Everything looks alive. And just for a moment, the whole world makes sense, it all fits together. You know it. You see it so clearly. And then it’s gone.”
― Greg F. Gifune, Blood in Electric Blue

“She’d been wrong all along. There was such a thing as monsters.”
― Greg F. Gifune, Savages

“Have you ever been lying in bed, darkness all around, when suddenly there's an odd sound? You know you weren't dreaming; you know you heard it for sure and you know it's not commonplace. You know it's an intrusive sound, a sound that doesn't belong there, and even though it makes no sense, even though it might be an intruder or God knows what, you roll over and forget it...but have you ever wondered what you'd find if you didn't?”
― Greg F. Gifune, The Bleeding Season

“The thing about emotional pain is that no matter how horrible it is, there are usually options. Pain would prefer you not know that, of course, as pain is the ultimate attention whore, but the reality is that pain’s going to do its work regardless of what you do or how you react. Pain cripples the best of us, but if you’re lucky and it doesn’t obliterate you entirely, it can be used as a cathartic weapon. At best, pain can be morphed into a vehicle for understanding and healing, and ultimately, hopefully, enlightenment, transcendence and peace. Sometimes, though, the best we can hope for is a little of both, a kind of imperfect destruction. For me, those avenues are necessities for survival and an integral part of the process of creating the things I create through my writing. I cannot be passive in my pain any more than I can be passive in my joy. I need to confront and use it—weaponized through language, thought, emotion and soul—to shine a light on that pain, but also, more importantly, my humanity. I run not from the fire, but directly into it, because I’m burning anyway. And in those moments, though it may often feel that way, I’m not alone. And neither are you.”
― Greg F. Gifune

“But it wasn’t until she held the torch closer that she realized the things in the jars were human body parts and internal organs floating in murky fluid.”
― Greg F. Gifune, Savages

“Time's a thief. And like all good ones, once you realize he's been there, he's already gone.”
― Greg F. Gifune, Saying Uncle

“That's why evil lives in the dark," he said quietly. "The rest belongs to us.”
― Greg F. Gifune, Orphans of Wonderland

“Most of us aren't what we should be. We're just what we end up.”
― Greg F. Gifune, Blood in Electric Blue