World of Darkness
Quotes related to/about The World of Darkness, the Chronicles of Darkness, and the Storytelling System.
Quotes from World of Darkness Books
[edit]"Everyone has had the sense at least once in their lives that things aren’t right with the world. There are times when the rational world seems, if only for a sec- ond, to fall away. The leaves rustling in the trees on a still day. The movement just past the corner of your eye. The way the darkness at the bottom of the basement staircase seems to crawl and writhe if you stare at it too long. We are taught to ignore the foolish impulse to react. It’s just your imagination, they say. There is no monster under the bed, in your closet, outside your window. It’s all in your head. Better to just shrug it off and go on with your safe and sheltered life."
- A Nightmare at Hill Manor, Christopher Lee Simmons, 2011, p.4
"But for those who look too long, too closely, there is another world pulsing just behind the façade of the one we know. Elegant, deadly things stalk the alleys and nightclubs of the city. Darkling beasts lope in the margins between physical and spirit. Men burn their fingers grasping at lightning, but still manage to mold it into vibrant beauty. Faded shades long for their living loved ones or rage at the injustice of their existence.
Unimaginable things skitter by in the darkness, and sometimes they intrude on the reasonable, ordered. They seep from the shadows, they rattle their chains and they force you to look. If you’re lucky—very, very lucky—you’ll survive."
- A Nightmare at Hill Manor, Christopher Lee Simmons, 2011, p.4
Quotes from Chronicles of Darkness Books
[edit]"At a warehouse on 17th street, surgeries are performed in accordance with the phase of the moon. In the suburbs, a housewife dotes on a large dog with man-like hands. Roaming the backwoods, there is a man who traded his hand to a hungry devil for immortality. He spends his nights polishing his hook.
These are the Chronicles of Darkness, tales of a world like ours, but just slightly wrong. A place we recognize, but where our fears take on lives of their own."
- Chronicles of Darkness Revised Storytelling System Rulebook, Rose Bailey, Meghan Fitzgerald, David A. Hill Jr., Matt Miller, Travis Stout, Audrey Whitman, Filamena Young Dave Brookshaw, David A. Hill Jr., Danielle Lauzon, Matthew McFarland, John Newman, John Snead, Stew Wilson, Filamena Young & Eric Zawadzki, 2015, p.17