67 Quotes by Paul Tremblay

Just because you have a scar doesn’t mean you have something wrong with you, Wen.

Happiness was for dogs, lovely creatures though they were. Ramola yearned for something more complex, something earned, and something more satisfying.

I’m like a friend admitting some reprehensible bit of behavior that forever warps and taints the relationship. Only I’m not a friend. I think I understand her obvious discomfort. Strangers are supposed to lie.

I tried to scream for help but I couldn’t move my mouth and I couldn’t breathe and everything in me just started leaking away, running down, like my volume button being turned down slowly. I knew I was dying, that that was what dying felt like, and the worst part was that the terrible horrible dying feeling was going to last forever. I’d never fully run out so the feeling would never stop.

Are you good at keeping secrets, Merry?” “I’m better than some.” I pause, then add, “More often than not, they keep me,” only because it sounds simultaneously mysterious and pithy.

I wasn’t sure if I wanted to hear such a big secret. It might not fit in my head and then it would spill out everywhere.

The TV people. I like calling them that. The TV people. And they have TVs for heads and their faces can change when the channels change.

There’s nothing wrong with me, Merry. Only my bones want to grow through my skin like the growing things and pierce the world.

You can find the molasses flood on the Internet, it’s there, I checked. Most of it is there, anyway, but that’s not where I heard it.” “Where, then?” She.