Stacey Venter

“He wanted to tell Luke that he loved him. But there were no words, and maybe no need of them. Or telepathy. Sometimes a hug was telepathy.”
― Stephen King, The Institute

“Most people have no idea how much of themselves they store off-site. Your personality is not just a matter of what you know about yourself, but what others know about you. You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you—finish you—as much as you create you.”
― Joe Hill, The Fireman

“You know how when a woman gets angry, really angry, she can reach way back into herself and find rage enough to blow any man to pieces”
― Peter Straub, Ghost Story

“Sure, I can turn on the TV or music, but even then I can’t turn off the quiet, the emptiness.”
― Dean Koontz, The Mercy of Snakes