8 Quotes by Shaun Hamill

...there's no such thing as a happy ending. The songs, books, and movies with "happy endings" al stop at teh moment of triumph....There are, however, good stopping places.

L'amour est ridicule, n'est-ce pas ? Un déséquilibre chimique, une maladie. (...) Les artistes consacrent 99% de leurs oeuvres - musicales, littéraires, cinématographiques, etc. - à l'amour. Le monde continue de tourner comme s'il n'y avait rien de plus naturel, de plus souhaitable. Nous fredonnons, à n'en plus finir, des airs à la gloire d'une maladie et des cicatrices complexes qu'elle laisse derrière elle.

...he has so much he wants to tell the boy, but most important, maybe, is this: life makes monsters of everyone, but it's always possible to come back. Pain and death are real, but so are love, and family, and forgiveness.

I don't reject the choices I've made, or the cost. It's not so surprising, I guess. My monster suit always fit better than my regular skin. I was never a guardian, or a hero, but a creator and harvester of fear.

So." She drummed her fingers on the book. "You're a grown man who still reads ghost and monster stories.""You already knew that about me, he said.""I guess I didn't think about it until now," she said. "You don't feel sort of ridiculous? Like maybe you should be reading books for grown-ups?""I think horror is the most important fiction in the world," he said.

Les chansons, les livres et les films qui se "terminent bien", s'arrêtent tous au "bon" moment. Ils ne racontent pas toute l'histoire. Seules les anciennes tragédies disent la vérité. Beowulf triomphe de Grendel et de sa mère, mais uniquement pour périr en combattant un dragon. Gilgamesh perd son meilleur ami. Achille aussi. Dans Hamlet, tout le monde meurt. C'est la seule vérité.

Vivre au sein d’une famille marquée par un deuil dont on ne garde aucun souvenir est comme d’être assis derrière un spectateur de très grand taille au cinéma. Autour de soi, tout le monde rit, pleure et réagit à des choses dont on ignore tout.

Living with a family wounded by a loss you can't remember is like sitting behind a tall person at a movie theater. The people around you are laughing, crying, reacting to something, but you have no idea what.