“The horror! The horror!”

“But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.”

“The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.”

“The essence of nightmare lies less in the simple experience of horrors than in the unpreventable fruition of horrors foreknown.”

“There was a brief pause for them to evaluate the full horror of the situation. Magnus. personally, was in horror up to his elbows.”

“He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine…”

“Pain was a fascinating horror”

“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”

“The horror of uncreative solitude…..”

“We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.”