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1 " Steve listened to the councilman's sermon in a state of hypnosis and again he felt the strange magnetism that the man exuded. Mathers was like a preacher of hellfire and brimstone who called down terror from the pulpit, and it had its effect: Steve realized he was afraid, just senselessly afraid. "
― Thomas Olde Heuvelt , Hex
2 " A magia existe nas mentes daqueles que acreditam nela, não em sua verdadeira influência sobre a realidade. "
3 " People find hope, comfort, or confidence in making the sign of the cross or not walking under a ladder, just as you find hope and confidence in offering a pennant to the witch. Magic exists in the minds of those who believe in it, not in its actual influence on reality. "
4 " This is all it takes for people to plunge into insanity: one night alone with themselves and what they fear the most. "
5 " Later, when he was able to see the bigger picture, he imagined that wild animals must feel the same kind of uncontrollable fear when they first inhaled the smoky air of a forest fire. "
6 " Magic exists in the minds of those who believe in it, not in its actual influence on reality. "
7 " In Black Spring they knew that desperate needs led to desperate deeds. "
8 " People desperately resisted the idea of their own death by looking away for as long as they could and avoiding the subject. "
9 " Every last grain of idealism would be sacrificed on the altar of safety. "
10 " Ik was Bella met ballen. Mijn vriendje geen pussy weerwolf of sparkling vampier, maar een fucking levende berg. "
― Thomas Olde Heuvelt , Echo
11 " Nevertheless, he finally felt the familiar calm descend on him that he recognized from his years of dealing with fucked-up, hectic situations, which allowed him to turn off his morality with only a dim, oppressive sense of pain, like anesthesia wearing off. "
12 " What he doesn't realize is that his sanity is swaying like a tightrope walker over a dangerous sea of madness and his rationality is dissolving, just as an ominous thought emerges from beyond and moves stealthily through his mind: nibble, nibble like a mouse; tomorrow everyone will die. "
13 " A good horror story didn't end with death, but with something worse. "
14 " When these faces smile, he no longer recognizes them. They’re faces that have forgotten how to smile. They’re faces with too much skin on them, too many wrinkles for their years. They’re faces that are leading lives of their own, and every day they sag a little further. They’re flattened faces, grim faces, faces under insurmountable stress. They’re the faces of Black Spring. And when they try to smile, it looks like they’re screaming. "
15 " De dagen die volgden waren eenzame dagen, aaneengeregen als regendruppels aan een slappe lappenlijn "
― Thomas Olde Heuvelt , Dolores Dolly Poppedijn
16 " We may be fucked up here, but that’s a whole nother level of fucked-upness. "
17 " Having fled to the New World, but with the scars of the Old World still etched in their skin, they had burned casks of pitch and herbs in the streets to drive away the tainted pestilential air while carrying their dead in sinister processions to be burned on pyres, all the while spreading the disease by excising their infected buboes. And here their descendants were driven one by one into the Hudson on a winter morning, never to be found. "
18 " Humanity has proven time and time again that it has a tendency to cross boundaries it shouldn’t. "
19 " The events of the past days began to come back to him now, slow and fragmented, like pieces of driftwood washing ashore in the aftermath of a shipwreck. "
20 " In Grim’s humble opinion, the people of the Hudson Valley were ill-bred, loud, beer-swilling wife beaters and, worst of all, they lacked the common sense to take full advantage of their geographic location. To the east they had the Hudson to collectively drown themselves in, and to the south they had Bear Mountain State Park, where they could mate unashamedly with beavers and white-tailed deer and effectively implement their own extinction. "
