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“Why does our species always have to take our full measure of God-given misery and terror and mortality and then make it worse?”

“In the midst of life we are in death.”

“It’s as if there’s some dark God who wants to torment us.”

“At last, the forest went quiet.
The trees whispered amongst themselves.
The darkness had gone.”

“They’d come to a dead end in the cold and the dark.”

“Some people believed in ghosts, and he had always wanted to, but this wasn’t anything as simple, as quiet, as a haunting.”

“Stories don’t end. They just turn into new beginnings.”

“Where you go when you leave isn’t as important as where you go when you come home.”

“Why do you spit on your roots?”

“One of the hardest things in this world is, to see the difference between real dangers and imaginary ones.”

“If every haunted house is built on the site of a terrible crime, the crime that The Amityville Horror rests on may be child abuse.”

“Today, we think of ourselves as responsible stewards of this big blue ball called Earth, but literary evidence suggests we’re just suckers. Given the chance, nature will turn on us in a heartbeat. This is one issue on which carnivores and vegetarians must stand united: we must eat nature, or nature will eat us.”

“[James] Herbert had revealed a great truth to aspiring horror novelists that would guide British horror books for the next twenty years: human beings are delicious, and England is full of them.”

“I was so tired of hating myself. But I was good at it, it was such a comfortable way to be… it’s so easy to be nothing.”

“Was the darkness always there?”

“One of the many ruses racism achieves is the virtual erasure of historical contributions by people of color.”

“Nothing got better.”

“The bees will bring back the rain.”

“It is a kind of power to embrace ugliness and its possibility of expression, so much more imaginative than beauty.”

“Mystery is a welcome change in a life that has been full of waiting.”

“Look around. Look at everyone else. They wish they were us.”

“Don’t let them see you hurt.”

“We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”

“People need bureaucracy to give them time to think before they do something stupid.”

“You love each other until you can’t live without each other. And even if you stop loving each other for a little while, you can’t live without each other.”

“All of this is recorded somewhere. It is history.”

“All of this is recorded somewhere. It is history.”

- from “The Deathbird”

“High in the bloody sky, the Deathbird circled.”