Quotes from Kealan Patrick Burke

She hangs around with this emo kid who fancies himself a poet or some shit.

All he will ever retain from however long he spends in that other place—and it's an eternity—will be fragments of horrors, so garish and alien it is impossible for his mind to put them together into any kind of sense or order, but they will be enough to compound the seriousness of the situation in which he has found himself.

There was something terribly wrong with the child, and simply by crossing paths with him, Phil had caught his attention. He felt trapped in a bizarre otherworld in which everything was crooked, but the harder he fought to extricate himself, the more tangled he became. So, in the absence of better options, he stopped struggling.

you want to know whether i believe in ghosts of course i do not believe in them if you had known as many of them as i have you would not believe in them either – Don Marquis ("ghosts")

Some of the time it feels as if we're just here to bear witness to the acts of monsters. To validate their efforts by seeing what they've done.

It was the kind of weather when bad things happened, Timmy thought, the kind when monsters stepped out of the shadows to bask in the fluorescent light of the storm, drinking the rain and snatching those foolish enough to venture into their domain. And

He had not yet been educated on the kind of monsters who preyed on Samaritans.

In a situation in which every rational person is telling you a fact and you're the one who denies it, doesn't that make you the one most likely wrong?

It was a museum of past meals.

Ghosts, after all, have little to celebrate and the living have plenty to mourn.