Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells ’em off for a coupla stones.”
The Diviners by Libba Bray
Tag: Darkness
Quote of the Day – October 9, 2019
“For a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold, then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death-agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated.”
—Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
Quote of the Day – October 8, 2019
Quote of the Day – October 7, 2019
“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”
― Dark Places
Quote of the Day – May 9, 2019
“I shan’t be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I am like a child going at night into a room where there’s always a light.”
―Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Quote of the Day – October 23, 2018
Quote of the Day – October 1, 2018
Quote of the Day – September 20, 2018
