Samara Breger > Quotes

“And is immortality necessarily good?" Roisin asked mildly. "What will happen when everyone you love is gone? When you're alone, and nothing matters any longer because you don't have the prospect of your own mortality to give it weight?"

"Listen, I understand you've got an argument to make, but never in my life have I thought, 'You know what really makes this lemon cake delicious? Knowing that one day I will die.”
― Samara Breger, A Long Time Dead

“Poppy knew of Pandora, of Psyche, of Bluebeard's wife--all women punished for their fatal curiosity. But this was her house and she was Poppy Cavendish. No door nor morality tale could stop her. After all, she couldn't read.”
― Samara Breger, A Long Time Dead

“Her muscles had locked and released, seized and spasmed and twisted, Her organs had become a frightened mouse, her body the powerful snake digesting it.”
― Samara Breger, A Long Time Dead

“Can I call it haunted when I'm every ghost?”
― Samara Breger, A Long Time Dead

“Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.”
― Samara Breger, A Long Time Dead

“How am I meant to wander when every part of everything I am wants to rest with you? Of course I’m starving. Of course”
― Samara Breger, A Long Time Dead

“How am I meant to wander when every part of everything I am wants to rest with you? Of course I’m starving. Of course I’m sick. Yes, I changed you. And my punishment is that you changed me, too. You’ve remade me, every cell, every atom. I . . .” She sank to the floor, knees drawn up, arms wrapped around her legs. Her feet were so small, and so dear. “I am ruined.”
― Samara Breger, A Long Time Dead