Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.
Stephen KingIt's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?
Stephen KingWe never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.
Stephen KingYou know, small children take it as a matter of course that things will change every day and grown-ups understand that things change sooner or later and their job is to keep them from changing as long as possible. Itโs only kids in high school who are convinced theyโre never going to change. Thereโs always going to be a pep rally and thereโs always going to be a spectator bus, somewhere out there in their future.
Stephen King