167 Quotes by Dan Wells

Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don’t.

No matter why you’re here, no matter why any of us are here, you’re never tied down to fate. You’re never locked in.

People wanted the explanation to be as big and flashy as the killings themselves, but the truth was far more terrifying: true terror doesn’t come from giant monsters but from small, innocent-looking people.

Someday I’d have to tell her about Ed Gein, whose mother dressed him as a girl for most of his childhood. He spent most of his adulthood killing women and making clothes out of their skin.

It’s easier to fall back into the same old patterns of hate and retribution, because at least then we’re doing something.

Most fires crackle and pop, but that’s not really the fire talking, it’s the wood. To hear the fire itself you need a huge blaze like this one, a furnace so powerful it roars with its own wind. I crouched as close as I dared and listened to its voice, a whispered howl of joy and rage.

Even a paranoid clock is being followed twice a day.

You are always in control of your own destiny.

The monster behind the wall stirred. I’d come to think of it as a monster, but it was just me. Or the darker part of me, at least. You probably think it would be creepy to have a real monster hiding inside of you, but trust me – it’s far, far worse when the monster is really just your own mind. Calling it a monster seemed to distance it a little, which made me feel better about it. Not much better, but I take what I can get.