Ian Apperley

“The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.   - Robert A. Heinlein”
― Larry Niven, Lucifer's Hammer

“The monsters in our cupboards and our minds are always there in the darkness, like mould beneath the floorboards and behind the wallpaper, and there is so much darkness, an inexhaustible supply of darkness. The universe is amply supplied with night.”
― Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

“he habitually hunched his shoulders in a vain attempt to brace himself against whatever blow was coming from the heavens, and which would logically hit the tall people first.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“There’s little good in sedentary small towns. Mostly indifference spiced with an occasional vapid evil – or worse, a conscious one.”
― Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot