Peter Harden

“In this life,” she said, crossing these glorious gams, shimmering in the filmy light, “you can’t let your guard down. If you can control yourself, you can control everyone else.”
― Megan Abbott, Queenpin

“Navidson's troubles might not have created the house, but they did ultimately shape the way he faced it.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“she told me her secret. And showed me what darkness was, and is, and how it works, and how it never goes away or ends.”
― Megan Abbott, Give Me Your Hand

“So when Carl said, Why do you take drugs? she told him what she thought, told him the truth because the least such a question deserved was a real answer. She said, Oh, who knows, there are so many good reasons and nobody mentions them and the main thing nobody mentions is the comfort of it, how good it is to be a slave to something, the regularity and the habit of addiction, the fact that it's an antidote to loneliness, and the way it becomes your family, gives you mother love and protection and keeps you safe.”
― Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis