Welcome to Night Vale
Description
Welcome to Night Vale is a fictional news podcast. It is written by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor and narrated by Cecil Baldwin.
Welcome to Night Vale is set in the fictional town of Night Vale. Located in a remote desert somewhere in the southwestern United States, Night Vale is a town where unexplainable supernatural events are commonplace and part of daily life.
Quotes
Episode 2
- Remember: if you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget.
- But listen: it's probably nothing. If we had to shut down for every mysterious event that at least one death could be attributed to, we'd never have time to do anything, right?
Episode 4
- Our top story. Last night, our PTA meeting ended in bloodshed.
Episode 9
- Death will be the last action you undertake.
Episode 12
- Stay tuned now for our two-hour special: "Car Alarms and their Variations", brought to you commercial-free by Canada Dry.
Episode 13
- Some mysteries aren't questions to be answered, but just a kind of opaque fact. A thing which exists to be not known.
Episode 16
- Your existence is not impossible. But it's also not very likely.
Episode 21
- Ask your doctor if right is left for you.
- Time is like wax, dripping from a candle flame. In the moment, it is molten and falling, with the capability to transform into any shape. Then the moment passes, and the wax hits the table top and solidifies into the shape it will always be. It becomes the past, a solid single record of what happened, still holding in its wild curves and contours the potential of every shape it could have held.
Episode 31.5
- Perfection is not real. Perfection is not human. Carlos is not perfect- no, even better- he is imperfect. Everything about him, and us, and all of this is imperfect. And those imperfections in our reality are the seams and cracks into which our outsized love can seep and pool.
Episode 46
- Are we living a life that is safe from harm? Of course not. We never are. But that’s not the right question. The question is are we living a life that is worth the harm?
Episode 68
- I like my coffee like I like my nights: dark, endless and impossible to sleep through.