Christian White > Quotes

“Guilt, fear, grief, they’re all like moss, Ab. If you slow down long enough it’ll start to grow, and it won’t stop until you’re covered.”
― Christian White, The Wife and the Widow

“You know what I see when I think about the past? A deep, vast ocean. Memories are the fish, I suppose. when I'm wading in the shallows I can reach in and pull one out if I want to. I can hold the memory in my hands, look at it, then drop I back into the water and let it swim away. But the deeper you go, the darker the water becomes. soon you can't see your feet anymore. you can't see the fish either, but you can feel them moving around you, brushing past your legs. Those fish belong out there, in the deep part.”
― Christian White, The Nowhere Child

“The idea is to visualise a stream, take each negative thought and place it on a leaf, put the leaf in the stream and let it drift away. But there’s only so many leaves you can place in that stream before it forms a dam.”
― Christian White, The Wife and the Widow

“In this story, Orpheus is married to a beautiful woman named Eurydice, but she’s bitten by a snake and dies, so Orpheus travels into the underworld to save her. Hades, the god of the underworld, agrees that Eurydice can follow Orpheus back to the realm of the living on one condition: as they walk through the caves, Orpheus can’t look back. Not once. So guess what old mate does?’ ‘He looks back?’ Kate offered. ‘Orpheus looks back. Eurydice is pulled back into the darkness forever, while Orpheus is torn to shreds by vicious, hungry beasts.”
― Christian White, The Wife and the Widow

“like a hotdog stand: full of lips and assholes.”
― Christian White, The Nowhere Child

“She sensed a primal darkness standing over them, following her like a shadow, and when she went downstairs and saw that body, it would clap around her shoulders, drag her down and stay with her forever.”
― Christian White, The Wife and the Widow

“expression. ‘Hello, Travis,’ she said in a mournful tone to match her face. ‘Ain’t this just tragic? You hear about this happening in the city, but in Manson …’ Shaking her head she looked out over the forest, and they both listened to the calling volunteers. ‘Have you seen Jack?”
― Christian White, The Nowhere Child

“The key to fast reading is to have a boring life,”
― Christian White, The Nowhere Child

“possessed”
― Christian White, The Nowhere Child

“in places”
― Christian White, The Nowhere Child

“Too old to believe the world is safe and free of monsters”
― Christian White, The Ledge