

“Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are.”
― System Collapse
― System Collapse

“Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.”
― American Gods
― American Gods

“What danger signs should patients watch for when selecting a skeleton doctor? Well, if the doctor refers to patients as “poor unlucky bastards,â€� be careful. Also, doctors who turn abandoned mental institutions into their own private research facilities are probably up to no good. Especially when the entrance to said clinic is “an underground passageway behind the morgue.â€� Most important, just remember that whenever a skeleton does science, innocent people wind up getting hurt.”
― Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
― Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

“Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn’t all-encompassing, that wasn’t blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she’d had this kind, she didn’t want the other.”
― Blue Lily, Lily Blue
― Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He said that the wolf is a being of great order and that it knows what men do not: that there is no order in this world save that which death has put there.”
― The Crossing
― The Crossing
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