How do you run from an idea? From a thought? From a story that lives i — Alan Wake II

"Its called "Return" because... we return."

"Its time someone gave me a straight answer here!"

"I was back exactly where I left. A dark forest outside Bright Falls. A gun in one hand, a flashlight in the other. Haunted by my own writing. Alice taken from me. I knew what I had to do. Stop the horror story from coming true. Stop the Dark Presence."

"In 2010, I had dived in -- a leap of faith. For Alice. With no idea that the cost would be a nightmare worse than death. It had taken me thirteen years to get out. Now Alice was dead because of me. And I was gonna make that leap again, this time knowing the cost all too well. Another way to look at it: I had brought the Dark Place here with me. I never had gotten out. Maybe after this, I finally could. It was a fools hope. I had no choice, I had to do it. It didnt make me any less terrified."

"[to Scratch] Cmon, you motherfucker! Cmon! Come home!"

"I dive to the bottom to find the answer, the map-- the map and the key and the compass is combined to form a door leading out! But how do you open a door thats not a door? At the bottom of an ocean thats not an ocean in a lake... thats not a lake?"