Alfonso Cárdenas

“Imagine trying to hold the tail of a comet as it blazes across the heavens. It’s burning your hands, eating you up, but there’s no malice in it; a comet can’t possibly know or care about you. You will sacrifice all you are or ever will be for that comet because it suffuses every inch of your skin with a sweet itch you cannot catch, and through its grace you discover velocities you never dreamt possible.”
― Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

“You know what I hate most about you, Marion? You're consistently, eternally wrong… and yet you're still alive. All those lost battles, every year of that entire lost war, but somehow you always cobble together enough dumb luck to walk away unscathed. The eternal sole survivor. You don't deserve that kind of luck. Nobody does.”
― qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

“Because she’s Jade fucking Daniels. And a thousand men like you can’t even reach up to touch her combat boots.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“On the morning of the exorcism, I stayed home from school.”
― Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts