Tim Barrett

“Our only chance is to keep perfectly still. Our insignificance perhaps may save us.”
― Algernon Blackwood, The Willows

“Believed they could just buy a fallen house at auction, paint a few walls and live happily ever after. He’s tempted to roar with laughter at his delusions, until he suffocates.”
― Adam Nevill, Cunning Folk

“Devon certainly did understand. Ramsey was like a CEO trying to shore up a dying company, or a dictator refusing to surrender. It was always the same story, she thought tiredly. Just small, angry men, clinging to fading power. They feared living without privilege because they'd abused it against others, and were now terrified of suffering the same cruelty they'd routinely death out.”
― Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters

“Hate was losing its emotional edge, becoming a common thing she lived with instead of a treasure she nursed.”
― Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters