Drew Davies > Quotes

“These thoughts were the very reason she was climbing this hill. To be rid of thinking, of worrying, of feeling like she could have done more. How many years did it take to comprehend life? Almost all of them, Esther felt despairingly, and yet she was no closer to understanding it”
― Drew Davies, The Locked-Away Life

“Bruno wished he was more capable of lying, but when he was keeping such a deep secret about himself hidden, the truth almost rose out of him by itself, like a counterweight”
― Drew Davies, The Locked-Away Life

“And when I ask anyone, where has everything gone in the world, they tell me - On-Line. It's some magical place they created when I wasn't looking. The promised land. No one explained the ramifications until it was too late. Or maybe they did, and I wasn't listening”
― Drew Davies, The Locked-Away Life

“shouts Daisy as she storms”
― Drew Davies, The Shape of Us

“Life should not be dampened with regret but nourished with hopes and dreams”
― Drew Davies, The Locked-Away Life

“Bruno chewed his food, not hugely paying attention to the others. He'd let Dr Allan take the power, get inside his mind - it was a horribly invasive feeling he'd never experienced before; even the memory made him shudder involuntarily. No, this time Bruno would act faster”
― Drew Davies, The Locked-Away Life

“You've come to the threadbare end of your tattered life, and you're hoping it affords you a vantage, but you've missed the lesson completely. Life is not about morals, and principles. It's about evolution. And you are a dinosaur staring down an approaching meteorite”
― Drew Davies, The Locked-Away Life

“One always thinks of oneself as worldly and wise, until you age and get worldlier and wiser”
― Drew Davies, The Locked-Away Life

“If you think too positively about something, I don't know, it's like something worse might happen. You jinx it”
― Drew Davies, The Locked-Away Life

“There was no elevator, so I lugged my cases up four flights of stairs, where I was met by Viggo – my first bona fide Danish person! He wasn’t a whole lot taller than me, which was reassuring, and he had blond hair and a stubbly beard, like a lesser Bee Gee brother. He also seemed a bit standoffish, but that might have been in comparison to all the polite fakery we normally do in England, all the gushing and frozen grins, the bobbing and blushing, and ‘Oh gosh, really?’ and the rest. Viggo made statements impassively, and moved on to the next one without asking how my journey was, or mentioning the weather, or noting that I was still panting heavily (what, me out of shape?). I was surprised to learn I was staying in the large canary-coloured room”
― Drew Davies, Dear Lily

“Working smarter, not harder has always been my motto in life”
― Drew Davies

“How little time there was when we were only ever renting these bodies”
― Drew Davies, The Locked-Away Life