David Sodergren > Quotes

“But before I go, I want you to promise me something.” She didn’t wait for him to agree. “If you love someone, tell them. Tell them every day. Never let them forget. And if they go away for a while, never forget them. They can come back, Jack. They can come back.”
― David Sodergren, The Haar

“There is a God, thought Aaron, and then the creature yanked hard on his skin and turned him inside out like a revolting fleshy pillowcase.”
― David Sodergren, The Haar

“At the time, it hadn’t seemed particularly significant. But that was always the way with life-changing moments, wasn’t it?”
― David Sodergren, The Haar

“Never at night, though. Things are different at night, when the sun goes down and the spirits come out.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“And it's nice to have a friend again. You're a good person, Muriel. I won't let any harm come to you. I know you regretted never saying goodbye to him... to me... but this time it won't be necessary. I will be by your side until the end.”
― David Sodergren, The Haar

“If time had any common decency, it would stop altogether and leave them frozen in this one perfect moment for all eternity.”
― David Sodergren, The Haar

“I have seen civilisations rise and crumble.
Your lifetime is but a drop in the ocean to me.”
― David Sodergren, The Haar

“From the day of her birth, the world had refused to accept her, and that was okay. She didn’t want to be here anyway.”
― David Sodergren, Rotten Tommy

“...PATRICK GRANT IN HOSTAGE SITUATION...SEVERAL PEOPLE ARE DEAD OR INJURED...WHEEL OF FORTUNE WILL RESUME SHORTLY...”
― David Sodergren, The Haar

“People just drifted away like fine grains of sand on an autumn breeze.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“And then once again the moonlight was gone, leaving nothing in its wake but death and madness.”
― David Sodergren, The Forgotten Island

“Well I’m not mad, thank you. The voices in my head would have told me if I was,’ she said curtly”
― David Sodergren, The Forgotten Island

“Life was a constant battle to preempt pain these days, and today the pain was winning.”
― David Sodergren, The Haar

“It was enormous, a sprawling gothic mansion in the middle of nowhere that would surely outlive them all.”
― David Sodergren, Night Shoot

“Things were so much simpler when she was younger. Her parents had made all her decisions for her, and she didn’t have the constant threat of adulthood hovering over her shoulder.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“The survival instinct of the human spirit could be crushed, seemingly beyond repair… but never fully destroyed. It was always there, offering hope, or desperation, or a queasy mixture of the two.”
― David Sodergren, And by God's Hand You Shall Die

“Was this parenthood? Love and fear combined into one tiny ball of unimaginable stress?”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“It was like everyone on the planet had been given a secret social rulebook at a young age, while hers had been printed in Chinese due to some cosmic administrative balls-up.”
― David Sodergren, Rotten Tommy

“We end our lives as helpless as when we begin them, he thought.”
― David Sodergren, The Forgotten Island

“I present to you, dear reader, the life of Constance Sclater Jamieson. I’m just sorry it had to appear alongside a story in which a boy’s penis is dissolved by a sea monster.”
― David Sodergren, The Haar

“If you love someone, tell them. Tell them every day. Never let them forget.”
― David Sodergren, The Haar

“In fact, the only thing Muriel couldn’t abide — that really, truly nauseated her — were stuck-up wee arseholes in suits telling her what to do.”
― David Sodergren, The Haar

“Justice, aye? There was no justice. Just men with a perverse pleasure in the destruction of women’s bodies.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“There was only so much you could say to the same people every day before staleness set in.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“Man is not alone in the universe. There’s more out there than we can possibly know. More than we would ever want to know. I guess some secrets are best left buried.”
― David Sodergren, The Forgotten Island

“The old fart was pissing Ron off. Not only was he acting like a dick, but Ron was convinced the man kept dropping Meatloaf song titles into the conversation. Luckily, Ron excelled in the art of dealmaking,”
― David Sodergren, Death Spell

“The old fart was pissing Ron off. Not only was he acting like a dick, but Ron was convinced the man kept dropping Meatloaf song titles into the conversation.”
― David Sodergren, Death Spell

“We end our lives as helpless as when we begin them,”
― David Sodergren, The Forgotten Island

“I love you, Vivienne,” he said, and ejaculated onto the fire. His semen sizzled in the flames, and he started to laugh.”
― David Sodergren, Death Spell

“She selected 1979 by the Smashing Pumpkins, and the music — as music is prone to doing — immediately transported her to those young and supposedly carefree days of teenage ennui and rebellion.”
― David Sodergren, Summer of the Monsters