Craig DiLouie > Quotes

“Not all ghosts haunt houses. Some try to live in your head.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“There is a proverb that says America is always 3 days away from revolution. Stop delivering food to the supermarkets, and see what a country of 300 million people with a strong sense of entitlement and over 250 million guns have to say about it.”
― Craig DiLouie, Tooth and Nail

“I want you out in the hallway, against the far wall in single file, ready to move, in fifteen. Drop your fartsack, Ratliff.”
― Craig DiLouie

“I remember our lives together, all our hopes and joy and sadness and dreams, and it all seems so meaningless and also piercingly beautiful, a single act in an endlessly repeating play in which the actors constantly change. A play in which the story doesn’t matter but whose continuation is essential.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“Nobody likes getting pushed around, but the truth is we spend our whole lives getting pushed,” Jake said. “Getting pushed ain’t the hard part. The hard part is figuring when to make a stand and push back.”
― Craig DiLouie, One of Us

“This was real love. You took somebody as they were and did anything for them.”
― Craig DiLouie, One of Us

“As the Buddhists say, everything is illusion. Everything is energy, and as it is above, so it is below,”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“If your delusion is actually true, are you still insane?”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“The Buddhists are right: Life is illusion. Quantum mechanics is also right: Reality is a construct of human observation. Even time itself isn’t real.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“For science, the problem is simple. If a ghost is made of energy, it will constantly bleed its own essence as heat in accordance with the second law of thermodynamics. A sustained haunting would require a constant power flux.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“Anomalies don’t mean ghosts. They’re simply things I can’t explain.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“You have no idea. You don’t know what you have. You have your youth and you’re beautiful, but you’re hungry, and that hunger blinds you to what you already have. All those raging hormones, making every decision for you. You’re always hurting, but you’ve never been hurt. Not really. Later on, though, you’ll realize youth is truly wasted on the young.
Right now, you’re pretending you’re what, twenty-one? Later on, you’ll
want to be twenty-one again. Really, no matter what age you are—ten
or a hundred—you’ll want to be twenty-one.
And, just as when you were a little kid, you’ll demand your dignity
before you earn it.”
― Craig DiLouie, Suffer the Children

“Often, there was no reason why bad things happened to good people, just a cause. Shit happened, and sometimes, it happened to you.”
― Craig DiLouie, Suffer the Children

“It’s a love for truth, coupled with a belief that anything is possible”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“And he finally achieved another desire, which is to learn what comes after death. He learned that everyone lives forever in one form or another. Everyone receives immortality.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“David thought of the Flood, how the rising water covered the Earth and killed every living thing on it. He wondered how Noah survived with his sanity intact while the world drowned all around him.”
― Craig DiLouie, The Children of Red Peak

“finally become sane again after so long. A refreshing breeze”
― Craig DiLouie, The Children of Red Peak

“I said, “You act like saying yes to every urge that pops into your head is brave. It’s actually the easiest thing to do. Saying no and living with the consequences is so much harder.”
― Craig DiLouie, My Ex, the Antichrist

“Roebuck and Chapman stand behind a seated woman wearing a hospital gown and the bulky steel apparatus on her head. She is pale and crying. The front of her gown is dark with a brownish vomit stain. The skin around her eyes is similarly dark as well as puffy. The eyes themselves appear haunted. Behind her, the men grin. Roebuck pops a champagne bottle and pours Chapman a splash in a Dixie cup. He leans to pour a little for the woman, which stays untouched on the table in front of her. He takes his own swig directly from the bottle. Gloria Flick walks on-screen holding up a sign on which she scrawled WE DID IT! The seated woman stops crying. Eyes glassy and deranged, she looks directly into the camera lens while the researchers go on celebrating. Her face shines with madness as it stretches into a broad, lunatic grin.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“That’s the thing about extroverts and introverts. The extrovert usually sets the agenda.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“The hardest thing about escaping a cult wasn’t leaving but making sure it had left you.”
― Craig DiLouie, The Children of Red Peak

“The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. Wes Craven Director, A Nightmare on Elm Street”
― Craig DiLouie, How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

“Social media had promised to bring people together but only helped polarize them along new tribes isolated in separate echo chambers.”
― Craig DiLouie, Our War

“Not all ghosts haunt houses. Some try to live in your head”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“It was the most soul-crushing thing I’d ever seen. The universe rendered as an endless, meaningless chaos that we shape into reality and onto which we project our hopes, instincts, and desires as narratives and meaning. A giant, seething junkyard flowing with algorithms that we imagine as a purposeful machine.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“Sabrina said they should be punished. She said there’s no going back after this, no living with them again. Not after what they have done.”

“I can see her point they declared war on reality and elected a maniac who almost broke the country. When he failed, they rose up and broke it themselves. You can’t reason with them, and they hate our guts.”
― Craig DiLouie, Our War

“A diabolo, qui est simia dei. Rough translation: Where God has a church, the Devil has a chapel.”
― Craig DiLouie, The Children of Red Peak

“this is the kind of place that wants you to sleep but makes you wonder if you’ll wake up.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“In our dimension, we have gravity and light. In higher dimensions, you might have gravity but no light. The Standard Model gets real strange when it comes to good old gravity in our realm: Why is it so weak compared to the other three forces of nature? Why can a kitchen magnet pick up a paper clip that takes an entire planet to hold down with gravity? It makes no sense.”
― Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen

“Strange to realize that if she hadn’t suffered, she’d be a different person. In a sense, she wouldn’t exist.”
― Craig DiLouie, The Children of Red Peak