“But I knew full well how there was some unnameable urge rooted in every human being that compelled us to drag others into our suffering, our despair.”
“The worst thing a person can do to you after they‘ve hurt you is let you live.”
“Baking bread, holding a weapon — somehow they both make sense when it comes to Kendall.”
“I fell in love with him easily, and now I have allowed him to break me.”
“Our heartbeats rattle against one another. And with his hands braces against me, I wonder if we will tear each other apart someday.
“If love like this — deep and painful and reckless — can last.”
“It‘s never too late. Because the end is never the end. There will always, always be time.
“To love, to forgive. To live.”
“Anyone can think anything. Thoughts are the only reality. It‘s true. I‘m sure of it now. Thoughts are never faked or bluffed.”
“Maybe that‘s how we know when a relationship is real. When someone else previously unconnected to us knows us in a way we never thought or believed possible.”
“Sometimes post-eating, usually after a large meal, his body makes sounds like a cooling car after a long drive.”
“Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It dominates. There‘s not much I can do about it. Trust me. It doesn‘t go away. It‘s there whether I like it or not. It‘s there when I early. When I go to bed. It‘s there when I sleep. It‘s there when I wake up. It‘s always there. Always.”
“Plus, it‘s a grave. Never did I think I‘d have to dig a grave.”
“To tell the truth, I liked the concept of evil people who eliminate each other, in a chain.”
“There are some things we may not understand, but we can sense them perfectly well.”
“Here my tears could flow, bathing my eyes and improving my sight. Maybe that‘s why I could see more than people with dry eyes.”
“The old method for dealing with bad dreams is to tell them aloud above the toilet bowl, and then flush them away.”
“I‘m just saying that sometimes the more you care for something, the more damage you do. Not on purpose, right? You end up hurting the things you love just because you‘re trying so hard. […] It must be the hardest thing in the world, caring for someone. Trying to make sure that person doesn‘t come to harm.”
“She saw him only twice.”
“Yes, but that‘s just the beauty of her passion.”
“Maybe there‘s no difference between wanting and needing except in degree; maybe if you desire something badly enough, for long enough, it becomes a demand.”
“And, furthermore, Arthur had been drinking with such unflagging dedication that he was simultaneously still drunk and already hungover”
“The trick is forgetting for one moment and then forgetting for another moment and then look, the moments run together like a string of beads, and there is heartbreak in the forgetting of heartbreak, in the forgetting of pain, which returns bright and pulsing regardless of the seconds it has been put aside.”
“He looked both carefully assembled and suicidally unkempt.”
“Something irreversible had happened and he didn‘t understand it. He felt numb with foreboding. He didn‘t understand it but he knew that it was real.”
“There can be something quite devastating in feeling a comfort you can barely remember. It can make you grieve, if I‘m honest, for something that you‘d always felt a vague sense of loss over but never known for certain you were missing. At the same time, there is a sense of relief at having finally found it, the warmth.”
“The time it took to separate longings from memories, one from the other, it was pathetic, weak.”
panIf hallmark made a horror movie it would be this. Both main characters annoyed me, all of the supporting characters weren‘t great either, except for Albert and maybe Joe. The “twist” was exactly what I thought it would be from the beginning. All that being said, it was a quick read, which is why I even bothered to finish it. I‘ve read better, but I‘ve also read worse. In the end, it was just okay.
“That was the thing about point of view — you saw things the way they presented themselves but that didn‘t make them true.”
“It wasn‘t hard to be brave. Not if it was for someone you love.”
“Then again, given enough time and exposure, a person could get used to just about anything.”
“If you are looking for something to be afraid of, you‘ll find it.
[…]
“Memory was a kind of haunting in itself.”
“You do not need a moral and noble story to do what you want. You do not need to be a victim to become a monster. Your loved ones need not be taken from you so that you might drink and brutalize and chase the sublime. Life is fleeting and meaningless and crying to be seized from behind and fucked into obscurity.”
“He wasn‘t sure to where he was headed — the moon, the stars, another planet, any place but home— but he knew for certain that it would be somewhere he could feel something.
“He wanted to hurt, and he wanted the feeling to last.”
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