The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Too little information and you're blind, too much and you're blinded.”
“We are never more ourselves than when we think people aren’t watching.”
“Nothing like a mask to reveal somebody's true nature.”
“What use is rearranging the furniture if you burn the house down doing it?”
“How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home? This lost, I decide. Precisely this lost.”
“...bars can't build better men and misery can only break what goodness remains.”
“If this is hell, then it's one of our making.”
“Tomorrow, I'll see his face in the mirror, and, somehow, I"ll have to make it mine. To do that, I need to start again, free of the past, free of him and the mistakes he made. Instead of the impossible, I'll need only to concern myself with the ordinary. The luxury of waking up in the same bed.... The luxury of sunshine. The luxury of honesty. The luxury of living a life... Tomorrow can be whatever I want it to be, which means for the first time in decades, I can look forward to it. Instead of being something to fear, it can be a promise I make myself. A chance to be braver or kinder, to make what was wrong right. To be better than I am today. Every day after this one is a gift. I just have to keep walking until I get there.”
“The last time I entered this forest, my mind never made it back.”
“I’m no longer a man, I’m a chorus”
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