Kevin Wignall > Quotes

“you shouldn’t be getting out of bed every day because you have to go to work, you should be working at something that makes you want to get out of bed.”
― Kevin Wignall, To Die in Vienna

“man”
― Kevin Wignall, A Death in Sweden

“If a person is measured by the regard they’re shown by others, then maybe I’m not a person after all.”
― Kevin Wignall, I Arise

“purging”
― Kevin Wignall, A Death in Sweden

“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”
― Kevin Wignall, The Names of the Dead

“he had the wrong constitution for disappearing. Because that was what disappearing would mean, the life of a permanent tourist, soulless, drowning in small talk.”
― Kevin Wignall, People Die

“The alpha team.” Incredulous,”
― Kevin Wignall, A Death in Sweden

“was reassuring after a day like they’d had, to be reminded that there were good things in the world, and good people, simple food cooked well, strangers sharing their kindness indiscriminately. Dan had been outside that virtuous circle himself for most of his adult life, but he was grateful to be inside it now.”
― Kevin Wignall, A Death in Sweden

“Ty also seemed to believe his own publicity”
― Kevin Wignall, This Place of Evil

“bristling”
― Kevin Wignall, A Death in Sweden

“He’d always found it vaguely depressing, and yet it shouldn’t have mattered that the world was full of people he’d never know when he’d removed himself so completely from the world anyway. This”
― Kevin Wignall, The Hunter's Prayer

“He hadn’t judged her, though, nor had he condemned her. He’d simply seen the point she’d reached, beyond ever redeeming herself. Maybe”
― Kevin Wignall, The Hunter's Prayer

“despicable”
― Kevin Wignall, A Death in Sweden

“Dan smiled, once again thinking how only someone so young could be so blasé about the fickle intricacies of fate.”
― Kevin Wignall, A Death in Sweden

“He couldn’t die by degrees in a life like that, didn’t think he could do it even for a few days, a revulsion that probably sprang from the same part of his character as the violence he’d come to live by.”
― Kevin Wignall, People Die

“He thought they might be shy around him, but in the spirit of three-year-olds, they actually paid him no attention at all.”
― Kevin Wignall, A Fragile Thing

“It never ceased to cause him wonder, that here had been a living person and now she was gone, fading away again, the city waking up without her as if she’d never been there. It was an incredible thing, beyond comprehension, as incredible as being there in the first place.”
― Kevin Wignall, People Die

“Religion fared badly in so much of the history he wrote about, and yet he was constantly surprised by how much solace he gained from places of worship. It wasn’t redemptive, nothing to do with conscience—more the strange sense of meaningful emptiness he found in these places, a quality that allowed him to disappear effortlessly.”
― Kevin Wignall, The Traitor's Story

“Jack Redford,”
― Kevin Wignall, A Death in Sweden

“A man needs a hobby, Finn, and all the best football teams have been taken.” The”
― Kevin Wignall, The Traitor's Story

“the march of technology isn’t to be seen in the act of me hijacking Logan’s car, but in me knowing that I had to do it.”
― Kevin Wignall, I Arise

“It was a rare thing for someone in his position to see what death was, not in the instant but in the aftermath, where all its energies were absorbed.”
― Kevin Wignall, People Die

“And elliptically, they talked about their work. They”
― Kevin Wignall, A Death in Sweden

“I’ve been spoiled by life.”
― Kevin Wignall, A Death in Sweden

“he had done the right thing without thinking, and had lost everything in the process.”
― Kevin Wignall, The Traitor's Story

“Religion fared badly in so much of the history he wrote about, and yet he was constantly surprised by how much solace he gained from places of worship. It wasn’t redemptive, nothing to do with conscience—more the strange sense of meaningful emptiness he found in these places, a quality that allowed him to disappear effortlessly. The”
― Kevin Wignall, The Traitor's Story

“He didn’t know how to deal with people who were falling apart, how to comfort them. He wasn’t sure if he’d just forgotten how to be with people at all.”
― Kevin Wignall, The Hunter's Prayer

“Take away the purpose Frank was designed for and there is nothing left.” Could not the same be said of humans? How much of what they do is worthwhile? Take away the necessary tasks of humans—feeding, reproducing, finding shelter—and how many of them can say there is anything else to distinguish them from animals or fish… or advanced computers. How many of them can say they’ve ever dared to think, freely and openly, to allow their minds to explore the universe that is laid out before them? How many of them could truly say they have thought more than me?”
― Kevin Wignall, I Arise

“Finn had seen in the people he'd once contended with, and sometimes even among his own colleagues - a policy in which killing was the first option rather than the last, because lives counted for nothing against the security of guaranteed silence.”
― Kevin Wignall, The Traitor's Story

“information”
― Kevin Wignall, A Death in Sweden