“I wish I were a boy again-unquestioning, with no need to analyze the moment.”
― Richard Matheson, quote from Somewhere In Time
“I looked at all the people, feeling sorry for them. They were still subordinate to clock and calendar. Absolved of that, I stood becalmed.”
― Richard Matheson, quote from Somewhere In Time
“It’s at times like this I hate the brain. It always builds more barriers than it can topple.”
― Richard Matheson, quote from Somewhere In Time
“Maurice Nicoll says all history is a living today. We are not enjoying one spark of life in a huge, dead waste. We are, instead, existing at one point “in a vast process of the living who still think and feel but are invisible to us.”
― Richard Matheson, quote from Somewhere In Time
“Adoro tu cuerpo -le dije-.Ni se te ocurra considerarlo otra cosa que no sea perfecto.”
― Richard Matheson, quote from Somewhere In Time
Richard Matheson
Born place: in Allendale, New Jersey, The United States
Born date February 20, 1926
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“Such speculation however, was of no interest to my father, who strongly objected to the possibility of spooks or spirits of any kind or even the use of these terms. ‘There is nothing in the attic’, he explained to me. ‘its only the way that your head is interacting with the space of that attic. There are certain fields of forces that are everywhere. And these forces, for reasons unknown to me as yet, are potentiated in some places more than others. Do you understand? The attic is not haunting your head- your head is haunting the attic. Some heads are more haunted than others, whether they are haunted by ghosts or by gods or by creatures from outer space. These are not real things. Nonetheless, they are indicative of real forces, animating and even creative forces, which your head only conceives to be some kind of spook or who knows what”
― Thomas Ligotti, quote from Teatro Grottesco
“Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, quote from Solitary
“I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't.”
― Jenny Downham, quote from Bevor ich sterbe
“I know what you’re going through is terrifying and unfair and really hard. But you have to go through it. Right now, you’re just standing still. You’re sinking in it. Let me hold your hand and go through it with you.”
― Lisa Genova, quote from Inside the O'Briens
“He touches me with every look he gives me, and she touches me with every word she tells me.”
― Ella Frank, quote from Blind Obsession
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