51 Quotes by Benjamin Percy

Books are like batteries, he says. And you grow a little stronger by reading them, surrounding yourself with them.

The girl remains on the ground. He looks at her and she looks at him and the air feels at once static and loaded, as if there is some kind of undersound his ear can’t quite decipher. Like after a bell rings. That’s how it is between them. There is something celestial about her, her skin a pale color, but a paleness of the softest gray-white imaginable, as if she had been soaking for years in a bath of moonlight.

We wore headlamps and the sight of us bobbing up the hill or zipping perilously down it had the look of busy stars, as if the night sky had come down to join us in our play.

Q: What’s the key to suspense? A: I’ll tell you later.

I grew up on genre – on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

I want to build as many worlds as possible – each a version of ours with a crack running through it – and not be anchored to any of them.