P.S. Clinen > Quotes

“Eternity is a frightfully long time to spend alone.”
― P.S. Clinen, Tenebrae Manor

“Shadow? What is shadow when all is night? Nothing is shadow at all!”
― P.S. Clinen, Tenebrae Manor

“He laughed to think of it; someone else had pointed it out to him - people were born upside-down. Nobody could run the race until they turned themselves around and rose to their feet. How could anyone hope to save themselves when they weren't even facing the right way?”
― P.S. Clinen, Australian Gothic

“Locrian thought of 'clockwise', and how the 'right' way to turn seemed at odds with the very cosmos itself - for man knew that the Earth spun in the opposite direction, and the planets too - gauche. If that wasn't the perfect allegory of humanity's defiance against God, he didn't know what was.”
― P.S. Clinen, Australian Gothic

“There's a duplicity to it that I can't get my head around. That we're so small, yet so special. So insignificant, so miraculous. An insignificant miracle, there's no other way to put it.”
― P.S. Clinen, Australian Gothic

“To suffer is to be human, this is an unfortunate reality we face.”
― P.S. Clinen, Australian Gothic

“To light a fire. She's death dressed up as life.”
― P.S. Clinen, Australian Gothic

“Why could a man not be fulfilled by his thoughts, paid by his joy, enriched by dreams that became plans that became reality? Fear had led him to where he was, and it was doubt that held him from where he wanted to be.”
― P.S. Clinen, The Will of the Wisp

“for though life can have its unspeakable tragedies, there is simply too much joy out there for those who'd seek it.”
― P.S. Clinen, The Will of the Wisp

“Hers was an icy love that purged, sharp as mint, the years of hostility that had built a tall pyre in his heart. A love comforting and alien - the nights of Neptune, the heart on Pluto - who could know it?”
― P.S. Clinen, Australian Gothic

“A sense of clarity settled him, an idea that there was no grief or sorrow, only a reaction to it; perhaps he could carry on, still feel happiness, remain the benefactor of simple pleasures.”
― P.S. Clinen, Australian Gothic

“The call of the void was spoken in whispers barely heard, and promised nothing that faith hoped for.”
― P.S. Clinen, Australian Gothic

“Ghosts aren't real. Reality is frightening enough.”
― P.S. Clinen, Australian Gothic