#orr

Although it may not seem like it, this isn’t a story about darkness. It’s about light. Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. If you’ve never tasted bitterness, sweet is just another pleasant flavor on your tongue. One day I’m going to hold a lot of joy. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#mac #sorrow

And do I look like the kind of man that can be intimidated?" barked Uncle Vernon. "Well..." said Moody, pushing back his bowler hat to reveal his sinisterly revolving eye. Uncle Vernon lept backward in horror and collided painfully with a luggage trolley. "Yes, I'd have to say you do, Dursley. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#horror

Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#memory #psychology #horror

Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#horror

Fred said, “Man, I think he’s gonna make a fuckin’ suit of human skin, using the best parts from each of us.” “Holy crap,” said John. “He’ll be gorgeous. ↗

— David Wong

#humour #horror

When my now ex wife said she wanted a separation, I was horrified. So I said, “You want me to wear a condom?!”
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— Jarod Kintz

#failure #false-conclusion #horrified #horror #mistake

Horror is the removal of masks. ↗

— Robert Bloch

#masks #horror

It is dark. You cannot see. Only the hint of stars out the broken window. And a voice as old as the Snake from the Garden whispers, 'I will hold your hand. ↗

— John Wick

#writing #horror

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light. ↗

— John Milton

#horror

I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it, but it didn't. It looked more like a dead cat I once found, the fat, glistening grubs writhing blindly, squirming over each other, frantically tunneling away from the light. But even that isn't the real horror. The horror is this: in the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness. ↗

— Alan Moore

#horror