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“To me there is nothing more fraught with mystery & terror than a remote Massachusetts farmhouse against a lonely hill. Where else could an outbreak like the Salem witchcraft have occurred?”

Mystery Lonely Terror Hills Witchcraft Massachusetts Outbreaks Salem

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to love her entire cast of distinct and memorable characters. In The Cure for Death by Lightning she fashions an irresistible song out of the joys and dangers of growing up, the mysteries and wonders of life on a farm, the thrilling terror of trying to outrun the awful unseen force that pursues a growing girl. This novel opens a door to a shining, surprising world.”

“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.”

Men Love War Age Fun Half Hell Mystery Adventure Despair Discovery And Love Longing Terror Pity Holiness Nasty Thrilling Drudgery

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“He [Aristotle] pointed out that people who had become initiates in the various mystery religions were not required to learn any facts 'but to experience certain emotions and to be put in a certain disposition.' Hence his famous literary theory that tragedy effected a purification (katharsis) of the emotions of terror and pity that amounted to an experience of rebirth.”

People Facts Certain Emotion Mystery Theory Tragedy Terror Various Pity Disposition Rebirth Initiate Purification Literary Theory

Author:Karen Armstrong

“What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world that can take apart and reduce every single one of us to a mixture of terror and ecstasy, fear and trembling. It is not an idea, that's the primary thing to bear in mind. It's an experience.”

World Mind Ideas Facts Talking Mystery This World Bears Terror Primaries Ecstasy Existential Mixtures Trembling

Author:Terence McKenna

“The first time I took my daughters to the ocean - and I love the ocean but where we swim is very rough, very New England, rip tide, not messing around ocean - and a thought arrived: I was asking my daughters to slowly recognize death, just dip their toes in its fathomless edge, to know it is there, even in the night when we don't see it and that it, in its mystery and largeness, in its terror, is the thing that makes life precious, magnificent and full of never-ending curiosity.”

Night Mystery Ocean Daughter First Time Curiosity Terror My Daughter Rough Swim Magnificent Rip

Author:Samantha Hunt

“People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.”

People Thinking Feels Children Soul Night Hours Mystery Terror My Soul Every Second Immensity

Book:Cosmopolis: A Novel

Source: Cosmopolis: A Novel

“Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.”

Way Littles Long Too Much Mystery Adventure Terror Long Way Exhausting Odd Thomas Annoyance

Book:The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd

Source: The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd