Hybrid Quote by R. W. Patterson

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

— Emma Winters

“The shadows had him in their grasp. There was no escape. You don’t have to escape, the voice in his head said. This is…

— Andrew Warren

“She smelled of flowers and rain. A meadow beneath a storm. It was intoxicating, and before he could even ponder why he would think…

— Micah Persell

“Words that had looked so strong on the page, which ran through his mind like music, now shriveled in the air around him.”

— Peter Murphy

“And at twilight, dreading to repass that ominous spot, I walked circuitously back to the town by the curving road on the south. I…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“He felt a happiness stirring deep inside him, shining a light into recesses of his soul that had long been devoured by darkness.”

— Erik Tomblin

“here it was again, clamping down upon his spirit, drying up his mouth, fluttering like an imprisoned bird in his bosom.”

— D.E. Stevenson

“It was like something lurking in the darkness within him...There is remained in the darkness, the great pain, tearing him at times, and then…

— D.H. Lawrence

“... this stray little thought released in him some echo of the past, a solitary trembling note whose sound rose higher and higher in…

— Olga Grushin

“…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

“And suddenly everything around me seemed to grow quiet, as if he were the wind that blew and I were just a cloud carried…

— Arthur Golden

“his mind wandered ceaselessly, hopping from memory to make-believe and then to his grim reality in a painful loop.”

— Peter Meredith