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1 " Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it. "
― Chris Priestley , Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth (Tales of Terror, #3)
2 " Sam's world grew and grew with each book he finished. "
― Chris Priestley , The Last of the Spirits
3 " But she was no guardian angel. She was not trying to help me at all. She had been trying to claim me as she had claimed the lives of my fellow passengers.She was the thing that remained forever unseen in my visions of her tales. She lurked near the bodies of those whose whose lives were so cruelly taken. She was there always, waiting. "
4 " She had the the most extraordinary capacity for falling asleep at a moments notice. Any kind of pause in the routine was an excuse for a nap. I swear she was more cat than human. "
5 " In my confused state I wondered if I had not died and gone to hell. And if this was the case, I wished that I had been allowed more opportunities to sin, for this seemed a rather excessive judgement on what had been a frankly dull and blameless life. But I was not dead. I could see that now. "
6 " I would sometimes see them among the trees, as I did this particular day. They did not come near and never said a word. They stood silently among the shadows. "
― Chris Priestley , Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror (Tales of Terror, #1)
7 " Is this her death I'm looking at? Or her life? And which is worse? "
8 " Give me a funeral over a wedding any day,.' said Uncle Montague with a sigh. 'The conversation is almost always superior. "
9 " Does something amuse you?' asked Uncle Montague.'I was merely reminding myself, Uncle, that I am getting too old to be so easily frightened by stories.''Really?' said Uncle Montague with a worrying degree of doubt in his voice. 'You think there is an age at which you might become immune to fear? "
10 " From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees. "
11 " I stood a little self-consciously. I was of an age when I was still unsure of myself in such formal matters as greetings and partings. "
12 " Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers. "
13 " After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling at the time, but it passes. One gets caught up in the narrative, but the dangers aren't real, are they? Things happen in any way the storyteller chooses. It is all just made up. "
14 " Some people give off a scent of danger that the wise know and avoid and that the foolish are drawn to. "
― Chris Priestley , Tales of Terror from the Black Ship (Tales of Terror, #2)
15 " But I am English and have spent my life at one of the finest schools in the country. I could take a beating. "
16 " Because they wanted the thrill, said his grandfather. They wanted to feel terror. Fear makes you alive. "
― Chris Priestley , Anything That Isn't This
17 " Because soldiers aren't really brave, they follow orders. Soldiers do as they told. They're not heroes. There are no real heroes, son. It depends on whose telling the story. "
18 " But why worship a tree?' I said.'I can think of many things less deserving of worship,' he replied. 'Look at how long some trees have been alive. Think of what they have seen. Why, there are yew trees in churchyards that may be more than a thousand years old; older still than the ancient church nearby. Their roots are in one millennium and their branches in another. "
19 " Ideas come from all over the place – a lifetime of reading and watching films and TV helps of course. I play around with thoughts of what creeps me out and hope that it will creep my reader out too. "
― Chris Priestley
20 " For nothing is deader than a body that once had life and has it no more. "
