ML Downie

“large black dogs can be a dark omen, did you know that? they foretell death, just like banshees do, and they follow you, and if you but look at them in the eye you are condemned.
still I´d rather see a dog when the time comes. the soft fur and the glassy eyes and the friendly bark of a playful hound, to take me gently to the realms of heaven.”
― Oscar de Muriel, A Mask of Shadows

“a tiny, fragile butterfly the same colour as the eyes of the one you love, a colour for which there are no words.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Old Dreams Die: Stories

“and i especially don´t like talking to old people. i don´t like having to shout to be heard. i don´t like their turned milk and their soft biscuits. i don´t like their fishy cats and youth dew perfume that smells of mothballs. i don´t like that they grown every time they sit down or stand up., or how loud they have their tv and how much they complain about what´s on tv or how they boast about having their own teeth or why i should be interested in the fact that they can still spell when they´re 89 years old. i´m with the eskimos putting their useless grandparents on ice floes and waving goodbye. this may be monstrous slander on eskimos. it could just as easily be some other tribe with access to large bodies of ice, or just plain water, with crocodiles.”
― Colin Bateman, Mystery Man

“there should be storm-lashed rocks or the hall of the mountain king. but our lives are weighted in cold, white light, and is it even possible to imagine that anyone hears our prayers.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In