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“remembered”
― P.R. Black, The Long Dark Road

“The sly look on her face that usually foretold some malicious comment was now a constant on her flushed face, her rounded corners and soft edges puffy and bloated. She never was a good drunk, Leah thought”
― P.R. Black, The Hunted

“First there was an interview with the governor of the prison, a surprisingly dainty little woman who put Freya in mind of a bird of prey - intense, focused, but easily startled”
― P.R. Black, The Runner

“And this was what happened with friends, she mused. Your shared history becomes a burden. Your antic tales become an embarrassment. The old you, the one you don't like any more, makes a reappearance, like a butterfly regressing back into a puffy, slothful grub. You're reminded of things you'd rather forget. Your teenage triumphs become a scourge. And the friends remember every utterance you made, every error of judgement, every inch you moved out of line during your most sensitive, awkward, ignorant years”
― P.R. Black, The Hunted

“All the way through her life, there had been no one to hold her hand. No one to put their hand to her back, when she was frightened. Her mother's love had been strong, but it had been smothering, in its way. She'd recognised that, but never shied away from it. So when Glenn's hand touched her back, briefly, she felt an absurd sense of gratitude”
― P.R. Black, The Runner

“There was an almost rapt expression on Deb's face, nothing to do with the act she was recalling, merely the act of recalling it. What was the truth in these stories, really? When the telling of the tale becomes an act in itself?”
― P.R. Black, The Hunted

“They had ended their time on earth in terror. They had run, they had panicked, they had pleaded. And they had found no mercy. Only glee, or rage, or unimaginable lust”
― P.R. Black, The Runner

“It never occurred to Freya that she was lonely; just alone”
― P.R. Black, The Runner

“She gazed at the jagged black mountains towering over the forecourt of the petrol station, and thought: It looks like they're jostling each other to be the first to squash me”
― P.R. Black, The Hunted

“There are all sorts of psychological issues that can't be diagnosed, or cured. Lack of sympathy and empathy are part of that”
― P.R. Black, The Hunted

“You see there's madness, but it's not a concrete thing, you know? However you express it. But a grudge... That's something you can put into form and shape. That's something you can be sure of. You know you remember stuff and it just... twists you... up?”
― P.R. Black, The Hunted

“You don't have to get used to the world. The world has to get used to you. That's one way to look at it. Being shy is one thing. Being invisible is impossible”
― P.R. Black, The Runner

“The oak was coming into bud, but nothing about that scene or that tree suggested springtime, or rebirth, or any of the benefits of the season. It was an ugly tree, spectacular enough to take a picture of, but old, stunted and bloated”
― P.R. Black, The Runner