Adel Al-Ashwal > Quotes

“When the power cuts out and the world goes cold, you will realize you aren't hunting an invisible killer—an invisible killer is hunting you.”
― Adel Al-Ashwal

“I do not eat the brave. Their flesh is as bitter as colocynth mixed with aloes. But the flesh of cowards has a flavor of its own.”
― Adel Al-Ashwal, The Evil of the Road

“We are the ones who never dismiss the gentle sway of a curtain as nothing more than the wind teasing it, but imagine instead an evil spirit hovering nearby...”
― Adel Al-Ashwal, The Drowned

“And, as is always the case when dealing with matters of the metaphysical, nothing can ever be proven... and nothing can ever be disproven.”
― Adel Al-Ashwal, The Drowned

“Six feet, or perhaps more, of earth are heaped upon you. Everyone leaves for dinner. And by the end of the evening, they are dividing your inheritance among themselves. That is the painful truth.”
― Adel Al-Ashwal, The Drowned

“These books are neither ordinary, nor do they try to be.”
― Adel Al-Ashwal, The Evil of the Road

“There are things that may be done. There are things that may never be done. And there are things that happen, yet all of us pretend they never happened.”
― Adel Al-Ashwal, The Evil of the Road

“And I do not know how anything can still be called sudden when you expect it at any moment. But when that thing is unseen, impossible to perceive with the eye or touch with the hand, then it no longer feels as though you are hunting an invisible killer. It feels as though an invisible killer is hunting you”
― Adel Al-Ashwal, The Drowned