The rhythms of freak are ruled by the holiday calendar, and specifically by Halloween, which as we all know, can be traced back to All Hallows' Eve, an ancient religious rite in which priests raced around the streets of Dublin throwing snack-size Snickers bars at impoverished children.
~Steve Almond, "Night of the Living Freak," Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America, 2004
Being in a band you can wear whatever you want
it's like an excuse for Halloween everyday.
~Gwen Stefani
Proof of our society's decline is that
Halloween has
become a broad daylight event for many.
~Robert Kirby
Funny faces, tall black hats,
Horns and ghosts and witches' cats.
We have many good things to eat
With boys at the door saying, "Trick or treat !"
Horns and ghosts and witches' cats.
We have many good things to eat
With boys at the door saying, "Trick or treat !"
~Julia Ann Andersen, c.1946, in American Childhood
When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam,
May luck be yours on Halloween.
~Author unknown
They that are born on Halloween shall see more than other folk.
~Saying of unknown origin
Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy
~ Henry C. Link
Backward, turn backward,
O Time, in your flight
make me a child again
just for to-night !
O Time, in your flight
make me a child again
just for to-night !
~Elizabeth Akers Allen
"I'm so happy that Halloween falls on a Wednesday this year !"
said no teacher ever.
~Author unknown
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.
~Judith Olney
... we in the light
sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things
children in the dark hold in
terror and imagine will come true.
~ Titus Lucretius Carus
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
~Mason Cooley
October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins.... Merry October !
~Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
Probably the scariest thing about cemeteries is that music
they play in your head when you drive by one.
~Demetri Martin
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
~Joseph Conrad
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
~George Carlin
There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.
~Robert Brault
Hark ! Hark to the wind ! 'Tis the night, they say,
When all souls come back from the far away -
The dead, forgotten this many a day !
~ Virna Sheard
