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“Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.”
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“Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.”
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“Team members who are not genuinely open with one another about their mistakes and weaknesses make it impossible to build a foundation for trust.”
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“Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams." (Harry Braxton)”
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“Kat bought a New York Times but couldn’t figure out how to operate it, so now she’s fiddling with her phone.”
Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. But we can give it to them only through the love that listens.”
Source : Paul Tillich (1954). “Love, Power, and Justice: Ontological Analyses and Ethical Applications”, p.84, Oxford University Press, USA
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“Horror movies in a sense are about the things that you cannot control, cannot define and the things that you are afraid of, and that is what the boogey man is. The boogey man doesn't have a backstory, he is just the thing you fear and I think it is important to celebrate that aspect of horror.”
Source : "Interview with 'Beneath' director Larry Fessenden". Interview with Bobby Blakey, March 25, 2014.
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“Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.”
