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Suddenly she’s an ant all scrunched up on the floor of that world. A static atom in a sea of change. The immensity of earth envelops her, and enters into her. She sips it, with each gulp of heady, supercharged atmosphere.
“So you see, fear is just another manifestation of insecurity. What humans want most of all, is to be right. Even if we’re being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters around the next corner ready to tear us apart, we would literally prefer to be right about the monsters, than to be shown to be wrong in the eyes of others and made to look foolish.”
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“I refuse to support the poltergeist industry, so would sooner sleep in a cardboard box than at the Belle Grove Plantation or the Albert Shafsky House, or any of the other places listed in the Hundred Most Haunted Hotels and B&Bs in America, none of which is named the Scarriott for some reason.”
― Calypso
― Calypso
“You’re afraid of moths?” He nodded yes and winced a little. “But nobody’s afraid of moths.” “I am,” he whispered, and he looked behind us, as if afraid that one might be listening.”
― When You Are Engulfed in Flames
― When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“But ignorance is not bliss, only a deeper kind of terror.”
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
“...he meant to give meaning to a fable; he meant to hunt down a creature that loped through children’s nightmares, that populated campfire tales, that existed in the same universe as stones who could mate with planets and father mountains and men.”
― The People in the Trees
― The People in the Trees
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