“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” —Stephen King”
―
Richard Chizmar,
The Long Way Home
“Los secretos son un problema, quizá el mayor problema de todos. Pesan sobre la conciencia y roban espacio al mundo.” ― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Button Box
“Is she thinking these thoughts or listening to them? It’s suddenly hard to tell.” ― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather
“The question that had bloomed in her mind while sitting on the bench that long ago summer day resurfaced—and rather rudely—earlier this morning as Gwendy was busy cushioning the button box in her carry-on bag with rolled up wads of socks and sweaters: How much of her life is her own doing, and how much the doing of the box with its treats and buttons?” ― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather
“THE POETRY OF LIFE RICHARD CHIZMAR I” ― Michael Bailey, Chiral Mad 3
“If I was shadows and moonbeams and tales of death and horror, she was sunshine and laughter and the yellow brick road from The Wizard of Oz . We balanced each other.” ― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman
“The air smelled of ripe apples and dying leaves and wood smoke. The wind made you ache in some place deeper than your bones.” ― Richard Chizmar
“When a monster is finally caught against all odds, it feels like magic.” ― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman
“It was just a strong...feeling.He gave off this seriously creepy vibe, a kind of hunger, you could feel it wafting off him.” ― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather
“President with the IQ of a turnip and the temperament of a schoolyard bully” ― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather
“Almost half an ounce of pure silver. Created by Mr. George Morgan, who was just thirty years old when he engraved the likeness of Anna Willess Williams, a Philadelphia matron, to go on what you’d” ― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather
“Voice recorder entry #6B (4:51am, Saturday, July 12, 2017) (Mumbling) I can’t. I don’t want to. They’re…my friends.” ― Richard Chizmar, Widow's Point
“The Weapon.” In it, a scientist involved in creating a super-bomb opens his door to a late-night stranger who pleads with him to stop what he’s doing. The scientist has a son who is, as we’d now say, “mentally challenged.” After the scientist sends his visitor away, he sees his son playing with a loaded revolver. The final line of the story is, “Only a madman would give a loaded gun to an idiot.” ― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather
“Innocence, once lost, can never be regained. Darkness, once gazed upon, can never be lost.” ― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman
“most of the men wearing the standard autumn uniform of an adult New England male—camouflage” ― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather
“She still can’t believe Clinton lost to this idiot. “The President of the United States is a flipping moron,” she” ― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather
“What it is, is you get older. You change and you don’t even notice it. You think you’re making the decisions, but mostly life is making them for you. You’re just along for the ride. Reacting, not acting. Most of the time you’re just trying to make it through another day.” ― Richard Chizmar, Dark Hallows: 10 Halloween Haunts
“But what if what she believes to be true...simply isn't?” ― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather
“According to a 2009 study conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, nearly 16 percent of American serial killers were adopted as children, while adoptees represent only 2 percent of the general population. There’s even a condition known as Adopted Child Syndrome that has been used as a successful legal defense in a number of death penalty cases where the accused has been adopted.” ― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman
“Los secretos son un problema, quizá el mayor problema de todos. Pesan sobre la conciencia y roban espacio al mundo.” ― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Button Box
“Is she thinking these thoughts or listening to them? It’s suddenly hard to tell.” ― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather
“The question that had bloomed in her mind while sitting on the bench that long ago summer day resurfaced—and rather rudely—earlier this morning as Gwendy was busy cushioning the button box in her carry-on bag with rolled up wads of socks and sweaters: How much of her life is her own doing, and how much the doing of the box with its treats and buttons?” ― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather
“THE POETRY OF LIFE RICHARD CHIZMAR I” ― Michael Bailey, Chiral Mad 3
“If I was shadows and moonbeams and tales of death and horror, she was sunshine and laughter and the yellow brick road from The Wizard of Oz . We balanced each other.” ― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman
“The air smelled of ripe apples and dying leaves and wood smoke. The wind made you ache in some place deeper than your bones.” ― Richard Chizmar
“When a monster is finally caught against all odds, it feels like magic.” ― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman
“It was just a strong...feeling.He gave off this seriously creepy vibe, a kind of hunger, you could feel it wafting off him.” ― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather
“President with the IQ of a turnip and the temperament of a schoolyard bully” ― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather
“Almost half an ounce of pure silver. Created by Mr. George Morgan, who was just thirty years old when he engraved the likeness of Anna Willess Williams, a Philadelphia matron, to go on what you’d” ― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather
“Voice recorder entry #6B (4:51am, Saturday, July 12, 2017) (Mumbling) I can’t. I don’t want to. They’re…my friends.” ― Richard Chizmar, Widow's Point
“The Weapon.” In it, a scientist involved in creating a super-bomb opens his door to a late-night stranger who pleads with him to stop what he’s doing. The scientist has a son who is, as we’d now say, “mentally challenged.” After the scientist sends his visitor away, he sees his son playing with a loaded revolver. The final line of the story is, “Only a madman would give a loaded gun to an idiot.” ― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather
“Innocence, once lost, can never be regained. Darkness, once gazed upon, can never be lost.” ― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman
“most of the men wearing the standard autumn uniform of an adult New England male—camouflage” ― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather
“She still can’t believe Clinton lost to this idiot. “The President of the United States is a flipping moron,” she” ― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather
“What it is, is you get older. You change and you don’t even notice it. You think you’re making the decisions, but mostly life is making them for you. You’re just along for the ride. Reacting, not acting. Most of the time you’re just trying to make it through another day.” ― Richard Chizmar, Dark Hallows: 10 Halloween Haunts
“But what if what she believes to be true...simply isn't?” ― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather
“According to a 2009 study conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, nearly 16 percent of American serial killers were adopted as children, while adoptees represent only 2 percent of the general population. There’s even a condition known as Adopted Child Syndrome that has been used as a successful legal defense in a number of death penalty cases where the accused has been adopted.” ― Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman
