Boris Bacic > Quotes

“One would be surprised by how many new meanings and discoveries could be made in text that was reread over and over.”
― Boris Bacic, The Town the World Forgot

“Curiosity was a double-edged sword. It made us seek answers we weren’t ready to know. The raw, unfiltered truth was sometimes best left wrapped up in a bow tie.”
― Boris Bacic, The Town the World Forgot

“Of course I feel like I lost a part of myself, but that’s the beauty of life. Pain makes us beautiful. We have all these chips and holes inside us from the damages we sustained, but they are filled with other things. You know what they’re filled with?” Caleb shook his head. “With whatever you allow inside.”
― Boris Bacic, The Town Erased by Time

“he knew God didn’t work that way. There was no bargaining with Him. He took and He gave regardless of how people felt about it. He was cruel. He inflicted pain, and people thanked Him for it. When He gave a crumb of mercy in a sea of suffering, people thanked Him for it. God was an abusive partner in a toxic relationship, which the victim could not get out of.”
― Boris Bacic, The Town Where Echoes Linger

“One would be surprised by how many new meanings and discoveries could be made in text that was reread”
― Boris Bacic, The Town the World Forgot

“men often took their anger out on the closest person. An innocent bystander who just happened to be there.”
― Boris Bacic, The Town the World Forgot

“Honestly, I think you’re in sort of a pickle because polite rude people are the worst kind of rude people. They’re gonna criticize you in the worst possible ways, but they’re going to do it so politely that you don’t understand if they’re doing it on purpose or if they’re just oblivious to their comments. It makes it really hard to be direct with them.”
― Boris Bacic, Mother Knows Best

“the office and Mom’s drinking and Chad’s red eyes and used needles were all caused because Troy wasn’t good enough”
― Boris Bacic, 25 Gifts of Terror

“He gazed down the street left and right. It was empty and quiet, save for the occasional car or pedestrian passing by. Some of them waved to Mickey, and they exchanged a few words in their language. “My head is fucking killing me,” Mickey said, confirming Dylan’s suspicion. The word “fucking” came out as “fah-keeng.” “When are Lexi and the others going to pick us up?” Dylan asked.”
― Boris Bacic, It Lives in the Woods

“Don’t judge a fish by its ability to fly.”
― Boris Bacic, The Town Where Echoes Linger

“Logic keeps telling me there’s nothing I could have done, but guilt is a powerful emotion.”
― Boris Bacic, The Town Where Echoes Linger

“Lecture incoming in three, two, one… “What the fuck is wrong with you?!”
― Boris Bacic, It Lives in the Woods

“FEAR, as the quote on Facebook that she’d seen once said (Forget Everything And Run).”
― Boris Bacic, It Came from the Ice

“All our lives”
― Boris Bacic, 25 Gifts of Terror

“It didn’t matter what you told their grave. They would never be able to respond to you.”
― Boris Bacic, The Town the World Forgot

“It was human nature to be too eager to give up free thinking and let someone else do it for them. Why worry about the consequences when you could just live in blissful ignorance?”
― Boris Bacic, The Town Where Echoes Linger

“with insectoid ease,”
― Boris Bacic, 25 Gifts of Terror

“You’ll see all these shards scattered on the floor, and none of them will make sense to you. But you’ll pick one up, and after rummaging through a plethora of others, you’ll find one that perfectly fits with the one you picked up. And that piece will motivate you to find another, and another, and so on. And then one day, you’ll look down, and you’ll see that no more shards remain, and you’ll see a completed mirror. With cracks, sure, but completed enough to let you see yourself in it.”
― Boris Bacic, The Town Where Echoes Linger

“By picking up one piece at a time. You’ll see all these shards scattered on the floor, and none of them will make sense to you. But you’ll pick one up, and after rummaging through a plethora of others, you’ll find one that perfectly fits with the one you picked up. And that piece will motivate you to find another, and another, and so on. And then one day, you’ll look down, and you’ll see that no more shards remain, and you’ll see a completed mirror. With cracks, sure, but completed enough to let you see yourself in it.”
― Boris Bacic, The Town Where Echoes Linger

“All right, motherfucker. Let’s dance,”
― Boris Bacic, House of Decay

“The woman in the office and Mom’s drinking and Chad’s red eyes and used needles were all caused because Troy wasn’t good enough”
― Boris Bacic, 25 Gifts of Terror