stix_antics

“The ocean is everywhere. Not only does it stretch to the horizon in all directions, it’s under everything as well. I don’t mean underground, I mean — it’s fundamental, you might say. If what’s around us is a picture, then this is what it’s drawn on. Reverend Mapple had a word for it, the subjectile. Lottie said it was like, if you could cut a hole in the air, black water would come pouring out of it.”
― John Langan, The Fisherman

“It would be a lie to say the time passes quickly. It never does, when you want it to.”
― John Langan, The Fisherman

“Everyone is fucked up, Luke. Damaged. We’re all messed up, underneath. Doesn’t matter what kind of house you live in.”
― Adam Nevill, The Ritual

“I have been sometimes way too attracted by my own villains because in a way they seem to hold the secret to the heart of the narrative.”
― Peter Straub