“A life was a secret thing, even between a husband and wife. Your secret life was completely your own, and because it was unknown, would never be mourned. The secret life of each individual went unhonored through eternity.” — Steve Rasnic Tem Copy Share Image
I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought… — Steve Rasnic Tem Copy Share Image
For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to… — Steve Rasnic Tem Copy Share Image
“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape… — Steve Rasnic Tem Copy Share
“Everything is dangerous. Even in your dreams. Even if you sleep without dreams. From the moment you jump out of bed and take that first breath. Something terrible might happen. Someone's bound to die before the story is over. You might even fall in love." -The Man On The Ceiling” — Steve Rasnic Tem Copy Share
The world is full of horror. Our imaginations struggle to keep up. It would be a poor life without imagining. I’m not sure we… — Steve Rasnic Tem Copy Share Image
If you love someone, they leave you. But if you don't love someone, they leave you, too. So your choice isn't between loving and… — Steve Rasnic Tem Copy Share Image
“Obviously. It seems to be in the nature of adulthood that we venerate the past, grieve its obsolescence, and even live there in the… — Steve Rasnic Tem Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wait at the bottom of those dark stairs, I sit at the bottom of the stairs, I wait beyond the bottom of… — Steve Rasnic Tem Copy Share Image
“I would have imagined that to be unimaginable. Sometimes I still do.” — Steve Rasnic Tem Copy Share Image
“A life was a secret thing, even between a husband and wife. Your secret life was completely your own, and because it was unknown,… — Steve Rasnic Tem Copy Share Image
For so long I have lived on the edge of an invisible world. Sometimes I feel like the scattered debris left over after the… — Steve Rasnic Tem Copy Share Image
