Devlin Tay

“Both of these give the mountain’s name as Okiyama, and say that on the top of it from time immemorial there has been a shrine dedicated to Fudo-myo-o (Achala, in Sanskrit, which means ‘immovable’, and is the god always represented as surrounded by fire and sitting uncomplainingly on as an example to others; he carries a sword in one hand, and a rope in the other, as a warning that punishment awaits those who are unable to overcome with honour the painful struggles of life).”
― Hiroko Yoda, Japanese Ghost Stories

“They were the kind of Christians who drove Moxley to lone-wolf spirituality–the well-fed, spoiled yuppie mystics who thanked God for everything, but asked for even more, as if God were a whipped parent with nothing better to do than stage-manage their super-biblically comfortable lives. If God did hear all their prayers, it logically followed that they were hogging His attention, and thus partly to blame for all the unchecked famine, disaster, plague and genocide in the world.”
― David Conyers, Cthulhu Mythos Writers Sampler 2013

“There was nothing to be gathered from her letter, more than that he was low and nervous. In those words, of which healthy people think so lightly, what a world of suffering is sometimes hidden!”
― Mike Ashley, Fighters of Fear: Occult Detective Stories

“You cannot truly believe that people can talk to the dead?” I challenged him. “Why not?” my companion replied. “People do it all the time. The question that intrigues us is: can the dead talk back?”
― Derrick Belanger, Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of H.P. Lovecraft: Volume Two