Quotes by : Caitlín R. Kiernan

I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It's entirely too awful, having thoughts that....

It is not the task of a writer to 'tell all,' or even to decide what to leave in, but to decide what....

Chance wanting to defend her grandfather, but not about to leave the library, dustysafe sanctuary of....

Demons never die quietly, and a week ago the storm was a proper demon, sweeping through the Caribbean....

What makes us brave isn't lacking the good sense to be afraid it's looking back at what we've lived through....

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and....

You love someone. You don’t leave her to drown. And you don’t tell her she’s crazier than she already....

It's a myth that crazy people don't know they're crazy. Many of us are surely as capable of epiphany....

Time is your cathedral. You know the present is only a pretty illusion in the minds of men. And I think....

That would be showing him a part of her soul, a part of her mind, that she's never risked showing anyone.....