“If you try too hard to hear the telephone ring, you cannot.”
Source: THIS IS IT or The Art of Metaphysical Demonstration
“You've already elevated this family. Just by being you.”
Source: Second House from the Corner
“I don't care what I am. I care where I am- and that's with you.”
Source: The Conjurer
“You marry the one who will be a good father, not a good lay.”
Source: Pumpkin Teeth
“That was when something hit me. The white suit he was wearing wasn't just a fashion choice. I mean, who actually dresses like that? Nobody, at least nobody in reality. Yeah, Ok, his big friend was in standard spook/secret service/bodyguard gear, but this guy? He was a walking cliche. It was like somebody said to me, Hey Chris, can you imagine a Colombian drug lord for me please? And this guy had popped up as the end result.”
Source: Kill Someone
“...Agnes Nutter's death, which which more or less marked the end of the serious witch-hunting craze in England. A howling mob, reduced to utter fury by her habit of going around being intelligent and curing people, arrived at her house one April evening to find her sitting with her coat on waiting for them.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“He dodged remarkably fast for a melancholy introvert.”
Source: Eyes Like Stars
“Their arrival was heralded by a speedy whooshing and whirring, accented with clattering clunks and clicks.”
Source: Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology
“The original Gothic horror tales focused on personalities deformed through loneliness. Ghouls, vampires, werewolves: all made, not born. But the isolation? Are even such as these ever truly alone? Perhaps the psyche has always been more complex than that, desire eternally more potent than terror. Surely, none prowl entirely in solitude.”
Source: Martyrs and Monsters
“If I've got a Dad, and his name is Wormwood Rot, and he's in some heavy metal rock band called Grave Dirt . . . then I'm definitely meeting him!
She stares at me awkwardly, and I'm about to ask again—maybe even insist—when she says, "Honey, why do you think he's on the news? Wormwood, I mean . . . your father? Becca, he's . . . dead.”
Source: Becca Bloom and the Drumsticks of Doom: A Heavy Metal Love Story