Jonathan Haubro > Jonathan's Quotes

“Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love”
― Clive Barker

“I have to return some videotapes”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.”
― Clive Barker

“It’s only when you’ve lost someone that 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.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Volume Two

“you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

“Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual promise. Summer in its turn soon begins to sweat for something to quench its heat, and the mellowest of autumns will tire of gentility at last, and ache for a quick sharp frost to kill its fruitfulness. Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself.”
― Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

“Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.”
― Clive Barker, Galilee

“With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to talk them over with the eagerness of a hungry man before a full and steaming plate.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Volume Two

“There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Volume Two

“You’ve always got me”
“Always?”
“Didn’t I just say so?”
“Yes”
“Am I liar? “
“No.” I lied.”
― Clive Barker, Mister B. Gone

“It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it's mine.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski

“...and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along. ”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“Indifference was the best remedy. Once you conceded defeat, life was a feather bed.”
― Clive Barker, The Damnation Game

“That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room light, nothing had been right. Nothing had been as comfortable or felt so good. Just the effort it took to keep your stupid physical body alive, just finding food and cooking it and dishwashing, the keeping warm and bathing and sleeping, the walking and bowel movements and ingrown hairs, it was all getting to be too much work.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“Committing suicide just seemed to be another aggressive plan to fix her life.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“Well, time works differently down here, boss. Sometimes I feel like I've lived a thousand lifetimes ... it's funny. The pain is constant. Sometimes it's so much that I can't stand it. I bite at myself, tear my skin off, but I can never quite die. Like I said, funny. But to hurt is to love, right?”
― Nick Cutter, The Deep

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“The past had a perfection that the future could never hold.”
― Nick Cutter, The Troop

“It was as if the man had awoken from a terrible dream only to find that those terrors were dwarfed by those in the waking world.”
― Nick Cutter, The Troop