Sam Holland > Quotes

“So why shouldn’t the outside look the same? She picks up the razor and breaks it in half, freeing the blades from the protective plastic shell. She drops the rubbish on the floor, then holds one blade between two fingers. She can feel her hands shaking. Slowly, she puts the sharp edge against the top of her upper thigh. She sees the scars from previous times. Some no more than silver lines, others still red, barely healed. She pushes and draws the razor across her leg. She feels the blade puncture the skin, slice into her flesh. Blood blooms, runs down her leg. She does it again. She knows how hard she should push – enough to make it bleed but not so much that she needs the hospital. After all, she hasn’t got Nav any more.”
― Sam Holland, The Echo Man

“kindness – noble gestures of a world where none”
― Sam Holland, The Puppet Master

“It hardly seems real, does it?’ he mutters to Cara. ‘I mean, what does this guy do? Dismember people in his kitchen, then sit back and watch Star Wars?”
― Sam Holland, The Echo Man

“hours after sessions with her therapist.”
― Sam Holland, The Twenty

“Normal lives, and Romilly feels an irrational wave of anger at the mundane nature of it all. How dare they continue their existence when hers is being destroyed.”
― Sam Holland, The Twenty

“Jess’s stomach turns over but she can’t look away, gripped by the horror on display.”
― Sam Holland, The Echo Man

“How strange life can be, she thinks, the mixture of good and evil, of excitement and dread.”
― Sam Holland, The Puppet Master

“Deakin leans forward, looking at the DVDs under the television. Return of the Jedi, and the Exorcist 2.”
― Sam Holland, The Echo Man