Top 42 Andrew Pyper Quotes
#1. Darkness isn't the matter from which the Antichrist was formed, but intelligence. Foreknowledge.
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#2. To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.
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#3. Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.
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#4. Though it's with you at every moment, it's always something of a surprise to discover that you can be at once alive and alone.
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#5. What's the problem? In a nutshell?"
"I'm a medical specialist. We don't really do nutshells[.]
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#6. Don't be crude, Professor. Profanity is one contest you will not win with me.
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#7. Some call it prayer. And as with all prayers, it comes down to either asking someone else to fight for you, or asking yourself to fight.
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#8. Grief has a colour. It has other characteristics, I know now, collectively forming a personality of sorts. An antagonizing figure that arrives in your life and refuses to leave or sit anywhere but next to you or stop whispering the name of the departed in your ear.
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#9. Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
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#10. Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.
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#11. Sometimes, monsters are real," Tess said, rolling over, leaving me alone with the ladybug staring up at me. "Even if they don't look like monsters.
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#12. Every poet - every storyteller - requires motivation.
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#13. How do I shoot?" "Your finger through there. Feel that? But you only pull if you're sure that everything's right." "Why?" "Because you can't take it back." She
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#14. Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they're just different names for loneliness. That's what lets the darkness in. That's what you have to fight.
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#15. They're coming! All of us waiting for the little green men to probe us or decimate us or turn us into shrubbery.
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#16. I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.
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#17. We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.
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#18. It's strange. Hearing you say my name."
"I can say it again if you'd like."
"No, I'll remember just fine.
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#19. Tell me this. What is it with men and feeling like they have to act like self-destructive superheroes whenever trouble shows up?"
"It's the only way we know how to love.
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#21. I just hated the law. I wasn't cut out for it. I couldn't imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.
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#22. If it ain't broke, don't let some stupid fucker fuck it up sort of thing.
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#24. Cancer is a kind of possession, too. And like a demon, before it claims you, it nibbles away at who you are, erases the face you have always presented to the world to show the unwanted thing inside.
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#25. Sometimes people close a door because they're trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.
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#26. All my life I have been pursued by the black dogs of unaccountable gloom
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#27. And what do we have? A profound if sexless intimacy of a kind I've never known with either man or woman since childhood, and perhaps not even then.
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#28. We need to talk." she says.
"The four most dreaded words in the history of marriage.
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#30. And this is the only really startling thing about the evil of the world: not that so much of it exists, but that nobody ever really expects it.
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#31. I've seen the photos," he said.
"Photos are never the same as the real thing," I said.
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#32. Missing someone feels like hunger. An insatiable emptiness right at the core of yourself.
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#33. Don't stop to understand. You may never understand. Just keep going.
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#34. about to knock again when the inside door is pulled open to reveal a sinewy woman dressed in what appears to be layers of old sweaters and an ankle-length denim skirt. Her long hair held back in an elastic that leaves the ends bunched and brittle as the head of a broom. Brown eyes wide and alive,
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#35. There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.
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#36. There are things in this world most of us never see," I find myself saying. "We've trained ourselves not to see them, or try to pretend we didn't if we do. But there's a reason why, no matter how sophisticated or primitive, every religion has demons.
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#37. I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.
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#38. Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.
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#39. But they are only the faces of the dead. Coming into detail as we hurtle toward them. They see us, too. Fingers scratching at the ice's rough underside, desperate to be the first to pull us down.
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#40. If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
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#41. On the sidewalks everyone holding either a giant coffee or a cell phone, as though a law had been declared against public displays of empty-handedness.
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#42. It's Parkinson's. And if you talk about it again the way you just did, I'll be the one to take some of your teeth out the hard way. Understand?
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