#lurking

forests of monsterous overnourished oaks with serpent roots twisting and sucking unnamable juices from an earth verminous with millions of cannible devils; mound like tentacles groping from underground nuclei of polypous perversion...insane lightning over malignant ivied walls and daemon arcades choked with fungous vegetation...Heaven be thanked for the instinct which led me unconscious to places where men dwell; to the peaceful village that slept under the calm stars of clearing skies. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#the-lurking-fear #men

There's a snake lurking in the grass. ↗

— Virgil

#lurking #snake

My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#brush #case #children #cloud #every

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#between #biggest #biggest difference #difference #existence

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them. ↗

— Richard O'Brien

#because #lurking #make #mind #own

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#about #any #away #create #crisis

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#doubts #every #evil #formidable #lurking

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#beneath #fear #intense #intense love #kids

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#could #lurking #rewarding #richest #simplified

When you are a hero you are always running to save someone, sweating, worried and guilty. When you are a villain you are just lurking in the shadows waiting for the hero to pass by. Then you pop them in the head and go home... piece of cake. ↗

— James Marsters

#cake #go #go home #guilty #head