Irem

“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

“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

“There’s your television—sixty inches of sexy plasma. There’s your Netflix, always ready to welcome you with some rewarmed sitcom laughter, and your stack of Blu-rays and your bookcase full of well-worn paperbacks. There’s Facebook and Snapchat and Instagram to keep you connected, to show you all the places you’ve yet to visit and people you’ve yet to meet. You’ve got a thousand worlds at your fingertips, a thousand lives, and before you know it, home is just the place you go to be somewhere else, someone else, until morning comes and your dreams end and you have to be you again.”
― Daniel Barnett, Nightfall

“You have good friends about you,’ Marrock said. ‘Loyal.”
― John Gwynne, Malice