Night Vale Podcast Quotes

Remember: if you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget.

There's a monster at the end of this book. It's the blank page where the story ends and you're left alone with yourself and your thoughts.

Whisper a dangerous secret to someone you care about. Now they have the power to destroy you, but they won't. This is what love is.

Sometimes you go through things that seem huge at the time, like a mysterious glowing cloud devouring your entire community. While they're happening, they feel like the only thing that matters and you can hardly imagine that there's a world out there that might have anything else going on. And then the glow cloud moves on. And you move on. And the event is behind you. And you may find, as time passes, that you remember it less and less. Or absolutely not at all, in my case.

And now a brief public service announcement. Alligators: can they kill your children? Yes.

It’s nice to have a station pet. Wish it wasn’t trapped in a hovering prison in the men’s bathroom, but listen: no pet is perfect. It becomes perfect when you learn to accept it for what it is.

The moon’s weird though, right? It’s there, and there, and then suddenly it’s not. And it seems to be pretty far up. Is it watching us? If not, what is it watching instead? Is there something more interesting than us? Hey, watch us moon! We may not always be the best show in the universe, but we try.

We have nothing to speak about. There never was. Words are an unnecessary trouble. Expression is time wasting away. Any communication is just a yelp in the darkness. I am speaking now but I am saying nothing. I am just making noises, and, as it happens, they are organized in words and you should not draw meaning from this.

When a person dies and no one will miss them, the mourning is assigned to a random human. This is why you sometimes just feel sad.

Most stories are happy, if you end them at the right time.

Hope is a thing with claws/that burrows in the chest/and digs and digs and digs/and never lets you rest

Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.