Carol Oakes

“We are almost always the craftsman of our own unhappiness.”
― André Maurois, Climats

“Even a man who is pure in heart,
And says his prayers by night,
May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms,
And the moon is full and bright.”
― Curt Siodmak

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Roman, his breath hoarse and ragged, his body trembling like a leaf in an autumn storm, hugged himself in unspeakable fear as the thing’s face finally came into view: two round empty eyes in which sable night roiled forever and a gaping mouth that hungered for his very soul.

It was the cucu, come at last to claim its prize, the life of a child who defied the dark.”
― David Bowles, Creature Feature: 13 Frightening Folktales of the Rio Grande Valley