“Darkness is a defining characteristic of Rotters. But it’s worthy to remember that darkness is just that—it’s dark—and what is being concealed in the dark is not just the horrible and fearsome, it’s also the inspirational and moving. Horror means nothing without happiness; dark means nothing without light. Rotters may make you feel scared, but hopefully it will also make you simply feel. It’s that kind of book, or at least I hope it is.”
―
Daniel Kraus,
Rotters
“Unable to perceive the shape of you, I find you all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with your love, it humbles my heart, for you are everywhere.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Shape of Water
“I don't like anyone. I don't understand why that's so difficult for people to understand.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Vol. 1: At the Edge of Empire
“Anomalies like me exist all around the world. So when does an anomaly quit being an anomaly and start being just the way things happen to be?” ― Daniel Kraus, The Shape of Water
“What you do with your time alive defines you, Reader, but hear me, I beg you, when I say that you are not done being defined.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Vol. 2: Empire Decayed
“Las palabras «The end» se materializan en la pantalla, corre el listado con los créditos, se encienden las luces en la sala y ya no es posible esconder quién eres en realidad.” ― Guillermo del Toro Daniel Kraus, The Shape of Water
“Hay anomalías como yo en el mundo entero. Y me pregunto: ¿en qué momento una anomalía deja de ser una anomalía y comienza a ser lo que sencillamente es? ¿Y si tú y yo no fuéramos los últimos de nuestro tipo, sino algunos de los primeros? ¿Los primeros seres mejores en un mundo mejor? Podemos albergar esperanza, ¿no es así? La esperanza de que no pertenecemos al pasado, sino al futuro.” ― Guillermo del Toro Daniel Kraus, The Shape of Water
“Haz lo que te diga el corazón. Cueste lo que cueste, sigue lo que te indique el corazón.” ― Guillermo del Toro Daniel Kraus, The Shape of Water
“Una última mentira antes del regreso al hogar, otra arruga más que eliminar a golpes de plancha.” ― Guillermo del Toro Daniel Kraus, The Shape of Water
“Jay's not sure he believes in therapy. He definitely doesn't believe in closure. People aren't doors. They're whole floor plans, entire labyrinths, and the harder you try to escape, the more lost inside them you become.” ― Daniel Kraus, Whalefall
“It's funny, isn't it? While we were distracted by the silly scraps that make up human history, you and I became eternal, impervious to rot, infinity itself.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Vol. 2: Empire Decayed
“Fantasies. Indulge them at your peril.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Vol. 1: At the Edge of Empire
“- Pero no puedo estar solo, ¿verdad? Por supuesto que no; no soy tan especial. Hay anomalías como yo en el mundo entero. Y me pregunto: ¿en qué momento una anomalía deja de ser una anomalía y comienza a ser sencillamente lo que es? ¿Y si tu y yo no fuéramos los últimos de nuestro tipo, sino algunos de los primeros? ¿Los primeros seres mejores en un mundo mejor? Podemos albergar esperanza, ¿no es así? La esperanza de que no pertenecemos al pasado, sino al futuro.” ― Guillermo del Toro Daniel Kraus, The Shape of Water
“His exhaled smoke was the exact colour of ennui.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Vol. 1: At the Edge of Empire
“Ah, the molasses of emotion. How it sugars the most dangerous of decisions.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Vol. 1: At the Edge of Empire
“The ambulance left. My shoulders became gallows and from them I hanged.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Vol. 1: At the Edge of Empire
“The tree house convulsed. A huge hole gulped away the center of the floor and Reggie felt one of his legs flop through. He loosened his grip on Willie’s pants leg and immediately got an eyeful of Willie’s shoe. Reggie reeled away, letting go of Willie to save himself. Willie’s body slid out the doorway and James wrapped his arms around Willie’s thigh, then his calf, now his foot, desperately clawing and clinging, shouting something, maybe, Don’t go, please Willie don’t go! For an instant the world narrowed down: gone were the tree house, the tree, the truck, the noise, the night. The world reduced to two things: James’s hands and Willie’s left foot. And then the tree shook and the truck backed up and Willie wriggled and the truck spun its tires and James screamed and the truck lurched ahead and then Willie dropped like a stone, heavy and silent, and James held only a single, tiny tennis shoe that was once worn by a boy named Willie Van Allen.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Monster Variations
“What you do with your time alive defines you, Reader, but hear me, I beg you, when I say that you are not done being defined. Go out; break things. Go further; repair them. Break hundreds of hearts. Have thousands of children. Discover awe in a tangle of weeds; find delight in the pattern of a roll of mass-produced paper towels; live, Reader, live; live as hard as I died, and only then I will be happy.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Vol. 2: Empire Decayed
“The past is perpetually in play, always malleable, ever salvageable. Did any of this story happen as I said it did? The telling of a tale puts a prism to it from which incalculable new angles rainbow forth. You made this as real as I; remember it however you'd like.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch -- The Complete Confession: At the Edge of Empire; Empire Decayed
“Unable to perceive the shape of you, I find you all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with your love, it humbles my heart, for you are everywhere.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Shape of Water
“I don't like anyone. I don't understand why that's so difficult for people to understand.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Vol. 1: At the Edge of Empire
“Anomalies like me exist all around the world. So when does an anomaly quit being an anomaly and start being just the way things happen to be?” ― Daniel Kraus, The Shape of Water
“What you do with your time alive defines you, Reader, but hear me, I beg you, when I say that you are not done being defined.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Vol. 2: Empire Decayed
“Las palabras «The end» se materializan en la pantalla, corre el listado con los créditos, se encienden las luces en la sala y ya no es posible esconder quién eres en realidad.” ― Guillermo del Toro Daniel Kraus, The Shape of Water
“Hay anomalías como yo en el mundo entero. Y me pregunto: ¿en qué momento una anomalía deja de ser una anomalía y comienza a ser lo que sencillamente es? ¿Y si tú y yo no fuéramos los últimos de nuestro tipo, sino algunos de los primeros? ¿Los primeros seres mejores en un mundo mejor? Podemos albergar esperanza, ¿no es así? La esperanza de que no pertenecemos al pasado, sino al futuro.” ― Guillermo del Toro Daniel Kraus, The Shape of Water
“Haz lo que te diga el corazón. Cueste lo que cueste, sigue lo que te indique el corazón.” ― Guillermo del Toro Daniel Kraus, The Shape of Water
“Una última mentira antes del regreso al hogar, otra arruga más que eliminar a golpes de plancha.” ― Guillermo del Toro Daniel Kraus, The Shape of Water
“Jay's not sure he believes in therapy. He definitely doesn't believe in closure. People aren't doors. They're whole floor plans, entire labyrinths, and the harder you try to escape, the more lost inside them you become.” ― Daniel Kraus, Whalefall
“It's funny, isn't it? While we were distracted by the silly scraps that make up human history, you and I became eternal, impervious to rot, infinity itself.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Vol. 2: Empire Decayed
“Fantasies. Indulge them at your peril.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Vol. 1: At the Edge of Empire
“- Pero no puedo estar solo, ¿verdad? Por supuesto que no; no soy tan especial. Hay anomalías como yo en el mundo entero. Y me pregunto: ¿en qué momento una anomalía deja de ser una anomalía y comienza a ser sencillamente lo que es? ¿Y si tu y yo no fuéramos los últimos de nuestro tipo, sino algunos de los primeros? ¿Los primeros seres mejores en un mundo mejor? Podemos albergar esperanza, ¿no es así? La esperanza de que no pertenecemos al pasado, sino al futuro.” ― Guillermo del Toro Daniel Kraus, The Shape of Water
“His exhaled smoke was the exact colour of ennui.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Vol. 1: At the Edge of Empire
“Ah, the molasses of emotion. How it sugars the most dangerous of decisions.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Vol. 1: At the Edge of Empire
“The ambulance left. My shoulders became gallows and from them I hanged.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Vol. 1: At the Edge of Empire
“The tree house convulsed. A huge hole gulped away the center of the floor and Reggie felt one of his legs flop through. He loosened his grip on Willie’s pants leg and immediately got an eyeful of Willie’s shoe. Reggie reeled away, letting go of Willie to save himself. Willie’s body slid out the doorway and James wrapped his arms around Willie’s thigh, then his calf, now his foot, desperately clawing and clinging, shouting something, maybe, Don’t go, please Willie don’t go! For an instant the world narrowed down: gone were the tree house, the tree, the truck, the noise, the night. The world reduced to two things: James’s hands and Willie’s left foot. And then the tree shook and the truck backed up and Willie wriggled and the truck spun its tires and James screamed and the truck lurched ahead and then Willie dropped like a stone, heavy and silent, and James held only a single, tiny tennis shoe that was once worn by a boy named Willie Van Allen.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Monster Variations
“What you do with your time alive defines you, Reader, but hear me, I beg you, when I say that you are not done being defined. Go out; break things. Go further; repair them. Break hundreds of hearts. Have thousands of children. Discover awe in a tangle of weeds; find delight in the pattern of a roll of mass-produced paper towels; live, Reader, live; live as hard as I died, and only then I will be happy.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Vol. 2: Empire Decayed
“The past is perpetually in play, always malleable, ever salvageable. Did any of this story happen as I said it did? The telling of a tale puts a prism to it from which incalculable new angles rainbow forth. You made this as real as I; remember it however you'd like.” ― Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch -- The Complete Confession: At the Edge of Empire; Empire Decayed
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