Stuart Turton > Quotes

“How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home?”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“If this isn’t hell, the devil is surely taking notes.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Too little information and you're blind, too much and you're blinded.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“We are never more ourselves than when we think people aren’t watching.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Nothing like a mask to reveal somebody's true nature.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“So many memories and secrets, so many burdens. Every life has such weight. I don’t know how anybody carries even one.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Can’t you see, these masks we wear betray us. They reveal us.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Anger’s solid, it has weight. You can beat your fists against it. Pity’s a fog to become lost within.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“What use is rearranging the furniture if you burn the house down doing it?”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Life doesn’t always leave you a choice in how you live it.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“The future isn’t a warning my friend, it’s a promise, and it won’t be broken by us. That’s the nature of the trap we’re caught in.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home? This lost, I decide. Precisely this lost.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“...bars can't build better men and misery can only break what goodness remains.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Cleverness is a type of strength, and they won't accept a woman who's stronger than they are. Their pride won't allow it, and their pride is the thing they hold dearest.”
― Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

“That’s the beauty of corrupt men, you can always rely on them to be corrupt”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“If this is hell, then it's one of our making.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Power should be a burden, not a shield. It should be used to everybody’s betterment, not merely for the person who wielded it.”
― Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

“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.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“One by one I knit these new memories together until I’ve got five minutes of past to wrap myself in.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“I'm saying every man is in a cage of his own making.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“I’m no longer a man, I’m a chorus”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“The last time I entered this forest, my mind never made it back.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“I'm any face in a crowd; just the Lord's way of filling in the gaps.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“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.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Some songs weren’t mere songs. They were memories curled tight and set alight. They made you heartsick.”
― Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

“Wealth is poisonous to the soul, and my parents have been wealthy a very long time—as have most of the guests who will be at this party. Their manners are a mask; you’d do well to remember that.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Questions are swords and answers are shields,” persisted Sammy, still staring at Sara. “I’m begging you, armor yourself.”
― Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

“Yet instead of being angry, he pities me. That's the worst part. Anger's solid, it has weight. You can beat your fists against it. Pity's a fog to become lost in.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Not all hells are created equal.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Oh, don’t mind me,” she says. “I loathe getting to know people, so whenever I meet somebody I like, I just assume a friendship immediately. It saves a great deal of time in the long run.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle