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“I’m afraid everything I was is gone and all that’s left is everything I’m not.”

“The dead are at the mercy of what’s happened to them, but we still have choices.”

“That’s the apocalypse, right? One big existential crisis.”

“It is a symphony of death, a masterpiece of hellish design, raw will.”

“They like the dark.”

“We are all eaters of souls.”

“Listen closely. This is not a test.”

“Seconds are critical. You can lose everything in seconds.”

“The way the morning started it was only ever going to end like this, drenched in someone else’s life.”

“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.”