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"Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror."

"Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural."

"Seconds passed, then ... La Dorada skulked into view. She was half-mummified, but sodden."

"Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too."

"This indication of audience interest is good for all horror movie makers at any budget level."

"I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom."

"I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them alive. Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do."
Explore more quotes by Holly Black

"She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for."

"This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses."

"Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of sediment. They'd find the black-and-white hairs of a dog we had when I was six, the acid-washed jeans my mother once wore, the seven blood-soaked pillowcases from the time I skinned my knee. All our family secrets rest in endless piles."

"I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts."

"The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don't deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they're going to go home one night and have the girl they've loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con."
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