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Edgar Cantero QUOTES

1 " This was different. It had synths droning and sending saltwater waves under my feet. It had drumbeats bursting like fireworks, rumbling the furniture out of place, and then a crazy, irregular, disharmonious, spiral crescendo of pure electric noise, like a typhoon dragging our bodies into it. It featured brass orchestras and choirs of mermaids and a piano in Iceland, all of them right there, visible, touchable, in Axton House. It shook us, fucked us, suspended us far above the reach of Help bouncing on his hind legs. It spoke of magenta sunsets and plastic patio chairs growing moss under summer storms rolling on caterpillar tracks. It sprinkled a bokeh of car lights rushing through night highways and slapped our faces like the wind at a hundred and twenty miles an hour. It pictured Niamh playing guitar, washed up naked on a beach in Fiji. "

― Edgar Cantero , The Supernatural Enhancements

2 " I think I broke Kerri,” she said.
“Go fix her,” Al commanded, unfazed. “We’ve got enough broken parts. "

― Edgar Cantero , Meddling Kids

3 " I long for the slightest evidence of it that doesn’t require me to relinquish reason, because a natural mystery and reason to face it make the happiest combination of all. "

― Edgar Cantero , The Supernatural Enhancements

4 " The remarkable thing now was emerging from the vortex, a thing for which no one had words and Nate was only able to punctuate with “Holy Satan’s crotch. "

― Edgar Cantero , Meddling Kids

5 " How confused they were when they saw how much I’d grown. Like, ‘Should we scorn her because she’s a kid? Or should we objectify her because she’s a woman? What kind of shit should we make her feel like?’  "

― Edgar Cantero , This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us

6 " Andy kicked her way in, moonlit and angerstruck, doors shattering the decoration behind as she shouted at the shocked furniture: “Blyton Summer Fucking Detective Club! Anybody home?” Kerri and Nate came to flank her right after, rifles aimed at the horrified haunted house. Tim scurried between them, promenaded across the hall, stopped by a decorative suit of armor, and peed on it. "

― Edgar Cantero , Meddling Kids

7 " Kimrean sighted purple caged dancers, mud wrestlers, tattooed devils, G-stringed Atlases erected like Pillars of Hercules out of a liquid crowd waving in worship of ancient twerk masters summoning cellulite tsunamis. "

― Edgar Cantero , This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us

8 " All those pathetic lonely people fooling one another into their clumsy games of afterlife and cosmic relevance just to avoid noticing the nauseating sadness of their real lives. "

― Edgar Cantero , The Supernatural Enhancements

9 " I saw the whole thing! A dog and a penguin helped him escape! "

― Edgar Cantero , Meddling Kids

10 " Ursula ta-daed back before their eyes, her noodle legs looking like Hellboy’s right fist, ending in heavy-armored sneakers. "

― Edgar Cantero , This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us

11 " Peter sat as powerless as an overwhelmed female character in a Victorian drama. "

― Edgar Cantero , Meddling Kids

12 " No book is dangerous in and of itself, you know. But historically, reading a book in the wrong way has led to terrible consequences. "

― Edgar Cantero , Meddling Kids

13 " The straw that breaks the camel's back always looks light enough, until it lands. "

― Edgar Cantero , Meddling Kids

14 " A.: Whatever; you must know how it works. An artifact containing... raw feelings, unprocessed sights and sounds and pains that the brain interprets- is that too crazy?
DR. BELKNAP: No. It has existed for thousands of years. It's called a book. "

― Edgar Cantero , The Supernatural Enhancements

15 " The night was cold but gentle like an X-rated metaphor. "

― Edgar Cantero , Meddling Kids

16 " And the sad truth is, I want to be all those people. I’d sooner die forked a thousand times in that house than wake up to a world without monsters or goddesses. I’d rather play the monster myself. "

― Edgar Cantero , The Supernatural Enhancements

17 " Flying monkeys exist in literature, Nate,” Kerri said. “Horror writers who get laid exist in literature. "

― Edgar Cantero , Meddling Kids

18 " The radio played “Groove Is in the Heart,” which is a radio’s way of saying it couldn’t care less about the mood of a scene. "

― Edgar Cantero , Meddling Kids

19 " This silence here was somewhat heavier, lonelier than the preceding one. The former was an elevator silence; this one was a walking-through-the-woods-by-night silence. "

― Edgar Cantero , The Supernatural Enhancements

20 " The dead cannot give orders; they can only whisper. "

― Edgar Cantero , The Supernatural Enhancements