st. james

“There's something creepy about any repeating dream, I think, about knowing your subconscious is digging obsessively at some object that won't be dislodged.”
― Stephen King, Bag of Bones

“You never learned the secret,” said Roberta. “How to be a crazy motherfucker and get away with it. Everybody else does it. What, you didn’t think they were all sane, did you? Not a one of them. They’re all crazier than you and me put together. They just know how to fake it. You could too, but you’ve chosen to torture all of us instead. That’s the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else. Because all of us crazy fuckers can’t stand it when someone else lets their crazy show. It’s like bugs under the skin. We have to destroy you. It’s nothing personal.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

“She'd been swallowed up in her own pain for so many years that she didn't notice his until it was too late.”
― Søren Sveistrup, The Chestnut Man

“There are two seasons in the bayou: death and rebirth.”
― Blaine Daigle, A Dark Roux