Quotes by : Caitlín R. Kiernan

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

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

I began to imagine orchestration where before I heard only the cacophony of randomness. Crazy people....

I don't judge a scene or a line of dialog by whether or not it advances the plot, for example. Imagine....

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....

Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or....

[L]uxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that....

I am a dead woman. Dead and insane.

Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll....