When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond to the world in quite the same way again.


The Spiral Staircase (ed. Vintage Canada, 2010) - ISBN: 9780307368348

Karen Armstrong Quotes

When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror that...

When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror that...

When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror that...

When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror that...