Irem

“I was tired, I think maybe I misheard him or he was doing a voice from a cartoon or something.”
― Robert P. Ottone, The Vile Thing We Created

“Once, in my father’s bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a place in our memory to which, sooner or later - no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget - we will return.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“That thing is from outside the universe. There are horrors there that no man can conceive of. If you truck with it you risk death, or madness, or the destruction of your very soul.”
― Stephen King, Later

“You know about the frog and the pot of boiling water?” “That’s a myth. They hop out. They always hop out.”
― Andrew Mayne, The Naturalist