"You can speak to me like you haven’t spoken even to yourself."
- Simona Panova
"My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral."
"Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real –"
"The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a gathering of severe mute brothers from a forbidden ..."
"I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth."
"Woolrich had a genius for creating types of story perfectly consonant with his world: the noir cop story, the clock race story, the waking nightmare, the oscillation thriller, the headlong through the..."
- Francis M. Nevins Jr.
"I can be anything – and nothing, and everything at the same time. It all depends on the role I am in."