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1 " Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our darkest fears, whatever they may be. It takes us into the minds of the victims, explores the threats, disseminates fear, studies how it changes us. It pulls back the curtain on the ugly underbelly of society, tears away the masks the monsters wear out in the world, shows us the potential truth of the human condition. Horror is truth, unflinching and honest. Not everybody wants to see that, but good horror ensures that it's there to be seen. "
― Kealan Patrick Burke
2 " Finch was his own country, the government unstable, the population volatile. "
― Kealan Patrick Burke , Kin
3 " Four months to the day he first encountered the boy at Walmart, the last of Phil Pendleton's teeth fell out. "
― Kealan Patrick Burke , Sour Candy
4 " Living is hard; Death is easy. And there are no answers on either side. "
5 " The living have enough to worry about these days without the dead coming back to complicate things. "
― Kealan Patrick Burke , The Turtle Boy (Timmy Quinn #1)
6 " Without proof of an afterlife, they were intimately aware of their mortality and the limitations of it. "
7 " It was fun watching the cigarette smoke develop into words until he saw what they said. "
8 " Halloween is controllable horror. "
― Kealan Patrick Burke , Dead Leaves: 9 Tales from the Witching Season
9 " Sour candy trumps chocolate. "
10 " A line from a book he’d read in highschool popped into his mind: The nameless are easier to bury. "
11 " All the world's a stage, Timmy Quinn, but it's not the only one…"The Turtle Boy (The Timmy Quinn Series (Book One) "
12 " All these moments, even the less pleasant ones, are snapshots we can never replace once they’re lost, and it leaves us wishing for just the slightest glimpse of them "
― Kealan Patrick Burke , Blanky
13 " everyone was a monster and everyone wore a mask to hide the fact. "
― Kealan Patrick Burke , Jack & Jill
14 " Blanky. Such an innocuous name for something that had now cemented itself as the locus of my grief and horror and rage. "
15 " He wasn't afraid to die. He was afraid to die alone. "
16 " After all, if I could fix an old coat, then surely, I could find a way to sew myself back together. "
17 " Surely even the monsters would respect another animal’s need to defend itself. "
18 " All these moments, even the less pleasant ones, are snapshots we can never replace once they’re lost, and it leaves us wishing for just the slightest glimpse of them if it means we can feel whole again. "
19 " I may have lost my mind for a time, but grief makes everyone crazy. Losing someone makes you lose yourself, makes you yearn for the impossible: one more day with the lost, an end to the pain, a cure for the spiritual malaise that eats you alive every morning you wake up alone. It makes you believe in wishes and other places. "
20 " Every time I walk these streets I think we made some kinda bet with God and lost. "
