Brooding Quote by Katherine McIntyre

“They were with him, and for that little while the darkness was kind.”

— Stephen King

“Ghosts are waiting in the shadows of the room, patient dull shimmers. The others can see them, too, I know it. We’re all afraid…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“…then he sat on his bed and for a fraction of a second the shadows retreated and he had a fleeting glimpse of reality.…

— Roberto Bolaño

“His presence fogged my mind, warmed my blood, kept the darkness at bay – maybe because he was the darkness itself.”

— Emma Winters

“The house felt haunted, like only I understood the way all of our shadows, the ones we’d left, had seeped into the wood and…

— Ava Dellaira

“I no longer liked the night. The darkness was where he lied in wait, waiting for it to swallow me whole, suffocating my senses…

— Devon Ashley

“He couldn’t quite formulate what had made the darkness so terrifying, now that he wasn’t looking at it.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Nothing scared me more than the dark. I liked to see what was coming, and darkness was a place where things could hide.”

— Kami Garcia

“I had been right; his eyes appeared nearly black in the shadows.”

— Melissa Wright

“some of that darkness stayed inside me. I barely recognized it at the time, but it would grow into a heavy shadow, something that…

— Shawn Smucker

“They said a child had died in the attic. Her clothes had been discovered in the wall. I wanted to go up there, and…

— Anne Rice

“Sometimes it gets old, living in the shadows. Somehow they’re not quite so dark when you’re around.”

— A.L. Jackson