“Hushed ocean waters. Big redwood evergreens with pinecones the size of your head. Long, twisting roadways swallowed up by the night, save for a string of flickering lanterns, all cocooned in the musty scent of oil and tree sap. Godless, in every sense. Of course, that was kinda the point.”
“Don’t try to humanize the inhuman. You’re wasting your breath— the world will never see themselves in a monster. Nah. You’ve got to make the people see the monster in themselves.”
“See, hon, we’ve got the bad influence under our own roof. Wish Georgie’s manners would rub off on this little heathen for once.”
“Where I begin is where the sea ends,And ev’ry breath is beginning again,And ev’ry breath is not my breath,And ev’ry breath it begins.”
“Hugor Humbleton stared at an avalanche of paperwork. On any other day this would not have bothered him, and on any other day it would have been nothing more than what it was. Certainly not a portentous metaphor.”
“Neighbor Leonard was wearing suspenders and a smile, both of which he acquired used from the Goodwill.”
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