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1 " Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that’s appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider. "
― Christopher Rice
2 " When we hurt people just to punish them, Luanne used to say, we create a darkness that will live on long after our reasons for giving birth to it have faded. "
― Christopher Rice , Bone Music (Burning Girl, #1)
3 " But in general, who’s to say what’s not gay enough? And how do we even raise that question without raising the far more perilous one of, “Is it too gay? "
4 " If you spend enough time in the past, everyone turns into a villain, "
― Christopher Rice , The Moonlit Earth
5 " Apologies aren’t worth shit. Apologies are a string of words people put together so they can off-load their guilt in five minutes. "
6 " That’s what guilt truly is, Scott realizes, a fishhook’s tug on the third or fourth minute of every happy moment. "
― Christopher Rice , The Vines
7 " I think you write because it’s easier than talking, "
― Christopher Rice , A Density of Souls
8 " I fear horror became so inextricably related to splatter punk in the late 1980s that a large segment of the audience turned away from it. And thriller became the more comfortable, cozier label because it promised a resolution, a happy ending. Horror came to mean, “I’m going to leave your ass out here in the dark with no way to get home. And one of your legs is missing. "
9 " I wondered if I was more addicted to being sad than I was to bourbon or cocaine. "
― Christopher Rice , Light Before Day
10 " A sense of peace comes over her. She realizes, for the first time in her life, that deciding to be strong doesn’t mean you get to decide what you’ll endure and when. "
― Christopher Rice , Blood Echo (Burning Girl, #2)
11 " Somewhere out there, she thinks, there must be a man who wasn’t raised to believe his every cough in a woman’s presence is somehow a gift to her. "
12 " Forcing breath into her lungs, she slides into the passenger seat. She wants to meet Luke’s joke with one of her own, wants to look him in the eye and return his sheepish smile. But she can’t. She can’t because the world seems too small all of a sudden. Because her life, once again, has been reduced to a thin stream moving through a channel carved by psychopaths. "
13 " Whoever said you can’t go home again was just engaging in a bunch of wishful thinking. "
14 " people who’d been through extreme instances of abuse sometimes lost the ability to detect the smaller abuses, the signs that someone wasn’t truly loving or a good match. It’s why it could be so hard for them to build lives better than what they’d been through. So hard for them to move on. "
15 " we don’t get to pick the other survivors of the shipwreck, and on our darkest days, they’re all we have. "
16 " Know this. It is not the living who are haunted by the dead—it is the dead who are haunted by the living. "
17 " I never anticipated that just kissing someone could be an event. With different stages and acts. The slow approach. The commitment. The taste. The smell. The withdrawal and then going back in for a second taste, a deeper one. "
18 " You never hate someone that much unless you’re afraid of him. "
19 " Dream big or die in your sleep. "
20 " She doesn’t have to work to blend in because in the French Quarter, all you have to do to blend in is dance with the chaos. "
― Christopher Rice , Kiss the Flame (Desire Exchange #1.5)
