T.J.

“It was the most private thing we had left—held even closer than our bodies, because our bodies were searched, all holes and crevices and cavities in every horrible way that could be imagined. But no one could shake out the truth from inside us. They couldn’t search us for that.
Our guilt and our innocence were only our own, and she should know to keep it that way.”
― Nova Ren Suma, The Walls Around Us

“This episode isn't about spiders. Nor owls. It's about looking at something and thinking you understand what it is. It's about assuming the best of what you see only to find out quite suddenly that it is the worst.

This kind of misunderstanding has always been, to me, the most compelling kind of horror. The StrexPet here is that issue of Zoobooks.”
― Joseph Fink, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe

“You kissed my hair while sticking me in the heart. But your house will break before I fall apart. -Punk”
― Penelope Douglas, Punk 57

“If I am spared,” he always said to Constance, “I will write the book myself. If not, see that my notes are entrusted to some worthy cynic who will not be too concerned with the truth.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle