"Sometimes there is nothing more chilling nor dangerous
  than one's own overactive imagination" - Chapter 1


"The gasping cries of sadness were those of utter sorrow,
  in a room where fact and fiction overflow"  - Chapter 2


"Those opulent waves carried a reflection of the turquoise sky
  along an inspiring course, until at last, the crest reached
  the banks of the escarpment" - Chapter 3


"The umbrage released from the resilient bird with an iron clad body
  was one that provided relief from a blistering heat wave,
  now in its seventh day" - Chapter 4


"If you're going to be frightened of anything, be frightened
  of the ogres and phantoms that lurk in dark corners of your house;
  they plan your demise while you're fast asleep and sometimes,
  you can even hear them stirring" - Chapter 5


"These aerial creatures were acerbated to the point of boiling
  as they bellowed aloud from the top of their infinite lungs before
  abducting me into their sick and twisted musical" - Chapter 6


"Time moves on in its usual fashion as always but when
  you are sitting in that office, it feels like the old electric
  wall clock is still calibrated to 1942" - Chapter 7


"Money was being funneled into various channels to appease
  mans greed, while stirring a cesspool of filth, which were the
  breeding grounds of our new inhabitants" - Chapter 8


"From where I stood in my room, it looked like he had a gigantic
  spider with six legs there on that leash, moving about at warp speed
  and upon thinking that, I immediately shuttered" - Chapter 9


"As I gently removed the cross from around my neck and handed
  it back to my father, the monsters under the bed slowly returned;
  not to mention Captain Hook, who could now be heard gritting
  his teeth ever so vengefully from the closet" - Chapter 10

"Eventually, his heart will wax grievous, to the point of sheer
  lachrymose in the most sullen of tearful plays" - Chapter 11


"Sometimes you just shouldn't dig where the ground too shallow. . .
  Sometimes, you get more than you bargain for" - Chapter 12
                   

"His occasional return would impart much discipline needed
  upon the youths, but when he left, the children would live
  as though they had bulls for a father" - Chapter 14


"No child should ever be filled with such gut-wrenching terror and
  trepidation, but those were the woes of my youth" - Chapter 15


"Faint as a whisper and as rapid as the wings of a June bug in mid July,
  did time begin to relax before unwinding into the past" - Chapter 16


"You can hear them babbling about conquests of women
  for it is the nature of the satyr, to redefine infidelity;
  the key to unlocking their domain" - Chapter 17


"There is a particular area; one in our long, cord-like brains,
  which allows imagination to fester and right now, it must have
  been lighting up like an early Thomas Edison light bulb" - Chapter 18


"He stopped again and calmly tried to remove the handkerchief
  from his right front pocket while bringing his lips together like he
  had just taken a huge bite of an unripe persimmon" - Chapter 19


"Several women dressed as Victorian dolls were chatting away by a shop,
  pleasantly sipping their tea out of fine china while giggling about who saw
  who doing what in the back of the open air carriage" - Chapter 20


"Little does he know what dragon he play with;
  what joy besets the fortuitous man before woe" - Chapter 21


"Just then, John proceeded to blow a century's worth of dust straight up
  Paul's nostrils, and he went totally ballistic, vehemently throwing his arms
  around and about his face, like he was standing in a giant beehive" - Chapter 22


"Euphoria was coursing through my veins like an analgesic, and I was
  now oblivious to everything, except that of my own macrocosm" - Chapter 23


"I felt miserable and I felt cheated, for I was now the locust
  born out of season; the writer with no hands" - Chapter 24


"Like silent waves through gleaming steel on the down side of a razor sharp
  combat knife, or the malevolent oculus of a freshly carved Halloween pumpkin,
  with a growing stare so ferocious it cuts deep into the wafer thin layer of the
   child's own imagination, to torment him throughout the night" - Chapter 25


"My first impulse was to start running, but I knew the animal
  would take to me like a jaguar to a tired gazelle come evening,
  and so we went with John's idea, which was, in fact, plan two" - Chapter 26


"It takes a human being a lifetime to absorb everything he or she knows
  but only minutes to turn it all into jumbled up, meaningless nonsense" - Chapter 27


"As I began to touch gently, the wounded interior of its wood lath,
  I must have disturbed something in its temporal lay-out, because
  like a wooden sloth, the whole house stood up on all fours
  and slowly began to move down the street" - Chapter 28


"I did not need to pack bags, yet I was on vacation;
  no one was performing yet I was being entertained" - Chapter 29


"Opening my mouth to speak, I said nothing,
  and we laughed unrestrained like buffoons on fire" - Chapter 30


"How clever the mind in its affinity toward ever knowing
  the requisite capacity to assimilate, lies unresolved" - Chapter 31


"To be a man before you can be a boy will ultimately destroy your soul"
                                              Chapter 32


"I was imbued with wrenching terror, to realize in but a few short hours,
  I might very well be dead" - Chapter 33


"They would hear only blathering nonsense through the receptors
  of their non-conformed minds, and I am sure that by trying to convey
  even the least bit of logic to these poor souls would be, in the philosophy
  of all immanence, a precursor to disaster" - Chapter 34


"These herpetoid dwellers, if given the chance could paralyze the world
  of science and bring down with it a host of quantum laws" - Chapter 35


"A tiny creature hatched in my brain and took form
  through a pinhole in my awareness" - Chapter 36


"Watching John sunbathe in the light of the moon like a deranged vampire
  he would, before staring bleakly into the margins of my Perimeter" - Chapter 37


"When day-glo soldiers arrived in the cortical hemisphere of the mind,
  I would find I had developed an unnatural fixation with clouds and the
  significance of creation; essentially, what I tried to learn I had already
  mastered and that was the art of reflecting" - Chapter 38


"You strange looking magnanimous beast, I said to my four-legged friend,
  the same way I would have said it to that prairie dog, had I been with
  Lewis and Clark on that wonderful expedition of 1803" - Chapter 39


"The borders around the room were adjoined in constituent angles
  to where the overlap of half-timbered wood protruded
  from the wall's facade" - Chapter 40


"Like an uncoordinated spastic fool, I was unable to retain my balance,
  and so I charged like a linebacker over several tomato plants and
  straight through John's parents dry rotted backyard fence"  - Chapter 41