28 Quotes by Chris Priestley

Ideas come from all over the place – a lifetime of reading and watching films and TV helps of course. I play around with thoughts of what creeps me out and hope that it will creep my reader out too.

Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

If ghosts exist, why are there not more? We should be tripping over them. If you can trip over a ghost.

But why worship a tree?' I said.'I can think of many things less deserving of worship,' he replied. 'Look at how long some trees have been alive. Think of what they have seen. Why, there are yew trees in churchyards that may be more than a thousand years old; older still than the ancient church nearby. Their roots are in one millennium and their branches in another.

Pah!' said Sam. 'What good is there in feeling happy one day if you go back to how you were the next?''What harm is there?' said the giant.

They were streetwalkers, women who sold themselves for money to men- good, God-fearing men who went to church with their wives the following Sunday without a care.

But she was no guardian angel. She was not trying to help me at all. She had been trying to claim me as she had claimed the lives of my fellow passengers.She was the thing that remained forever unseen in my visions of her tales. She lurked near the bodies of those whose whose lives were so cruelly taken. She was there always, waiting.

She had the the most extraordinary capacity for falling asleep at a moments notice. Any kind of pause in the routine was an excuse for a nap. I swear she was more cat than human.