Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways. A book, a poem, a song, a bedtime story, a grandmother's suicide, the choreography of a dance, a few frames of film, a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a deadly tumble from a horse, a faded photograph, or a story you tell your daughter.
You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they … - Caitlín R. Kiernan
You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they …
- Caitlín R. Kiernan
Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relativel… - Caitlín R. Kiernan
Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relativel…
No story has a beginning, and no story has an end. Beginnings and endings may be conceived to serve a purpose, to serve a momentary and transient int… - Caitlín R. Kiernan
No story has a beginning, and no story has an end. Beginnings and endings may be conceived to serve a purpose, to serve a momentary and transient int…
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in. - Caitlín R. Kiernan
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.
Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be. - Caitlín R. Kiernan
Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.
Magick may be no more than the willful invocation of awe. - Caitlín R. Kiernan
Magick may be no more than the willful invocation of awe.
Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have. - Caitlín R. Kiernan
Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.
I need a world filled with wonder, with awe, with awful things. I couldn't exist in a world devoid of marvels, even if the marvels are terrible marve… - Caitlín R. Kiernan
I need a world filled with wonder, with awe, with awful things. I couldn't exist in a world devoid of marvels, even if the marvels are terrible marve…
Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time. - Caitlín R. Kiernan
Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time.
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