Paula Guran Quotes.

11. "walls to make sure that"
- Paula Guran, Vampires: The Recent Undead

12. "Living in West Texas is sort of like living in Hell, but without the favorable climate and charming people."
- Paula Guran, Vampires: The Recent Undead

13. "When your children were small you worried that they would die and you would lose them, and then they grew up and you ended up losing the children they’d been, anyway."
- Paula Guran, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas 2015

14. "Naivety can be a terrible thing. Jesus wept."
- Paula Guran, Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations

15. "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. —Oscar Wilde (1891)"
- Paula Guran, Halloween

16. "The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween. It’s a festival of fantasy, a celebration of otherness, the one time each year when the mundane is overturned in favor of the bizarre, and everyone can become anyone or anything they wish. At its core, Halloween is a chance to confront our most primal fear—death—and attempt to control it or, at the very least, mock it."
- Paula Guran, Halloween

17. "Monsters don’t just happen. We make them, day by day, choice by choice."
- Paula Guran, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror

18. "I believe in the redeeming power of stories, I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don’t understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.—Neil Gaiman"
- Paula Guran, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror

19. "Danny had figured out a long time ago that he’d get further in life if he didn’t spend time worrying about being embarrassed about stuff. This night"
- Paula Guran, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror