13 Quotes by Daniel Kraus

Darkness is a defining characteristic of Rotters. But it’s worthy to remember that darkness is just that—it’s dark—and what is being concealed in the dark is not just the horrible and fearsome, it’s also the inspirational and moving. Horror means nothing without happiness; dark means nothing without light. Rotters may make you feel scared, but hopefully it will also make you simply feel. It’s that kind of book, or at least I hope it is.

Such a shovel, it seemed a waste not to use it.

Writing, he'd said, is the most dangerous thing there is. Because when you write, you're only creating half the ideas. The reader brings the other half. And when you have two people involved in a plot, what's that called? Her answer: boring .His response: a conspiracy.

Unable to perceive the shape of you, I find you all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with your love, it humbles my heart, for you are everywhere.

Ah, the molasses of emotion. How it sugars the most dangerous of decisions.

Fantasies. Indulge them at your peril.

At length her hair came loose and whisked my face. I did not mind such blond whips of sunlight.

The past is perpetually in play, always malleable, ever salvageable. Did any of this story happen as I said it did? The telling of a tale puts a prism to it from which incalculable new angles rainbow forth. You made this as real as I; remember it however you’d like.

His exhaled smoke was the exact colour of ennui.