64 Quotes by Laird Barron

Ecco il portale. Essere presi in esso vuol dire ritrovarsi trasportati alla dimora dei Figli dell’Antica Sanguisuga, signori tra gli Oscuri che servono vaste, cieche cose nelle desolazioni senza luce in cui la fisica mortale collassa nell’assurdo. Forse tu viaggerai fino alla stessa Antica Sanguisuga. Se io non fossi un tale codardo…

Presumption is a leading cause of death.

Conrad might be on his way to achieving godhead and wouldn't that be a kick in the ass?

The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did.

Your father had other plans for you. Alas, his breakdown and untimely demise derailed everything he'd worked to accomplish. He would not approve of your quixotic pursuit of Imogene. She became embroiled in his vendetta with the forces of darkness, as it were. No sense following her into oblivion."Conrad said, "You talk a lot for a guy on oxygen.

If the sky, by sinister alchemy, or diabolical prestidigitation, transformed into a mirror of the mother sea, the primordial cradle; and if leviathans swam that breadth and hovered, softly undulating over the teaming habitations of the globe, feasting; what should you wear?

Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.

Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite and wrath.

My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.