Simon Dewar > Quotes

“We wouldn’t let our dogs and cats suffer like this but we’ll happily put our own parents away to wither and waste into ignominy and despair. They deteriorate to frightened babes again as everything they’ve ever been deserts them, and we think it’s the humane, moral thing to do, to let that happen.”
― Simon Dewar, Suspended In Dusk

“They’d tried automatically generating the stories in response to the figures but had ended up with nonsense—one scenario suggested by the computer was that a gang of toddlers had terrorised a war veteran with a syringe full of HIV positive blood.”
― Simon Dewar, Suspended In Dusk

“We wouldn’t let our dogs and cats suffer like this but we’ll happily put our own parents away to wither and waste into ignominy and despair.”
― Simon Dewar, Suspended In Dusk

“I lived hand to mouth then—tirer le diable par la queue, as my grandmother used to say. Pulling the devil by the tail.”
― Simon Dewar, Suspended In Dusk

“Perhaps, together, they would found a new world, a refuge for the beasts and the outcasts.”
― Simon Dewar, Suspended In Dusk

“After all, if a shadow is only given definition by the light, then a monster must find its shape outside the darkness.”
― Simon Dewar, Suspended In Dusk

“What about the casual horror of urban life in the twenty first century? One only has to watch the news to be sickened almost beyond belief. The constant mindless violence. The murder. The hypocrisy. The disregard for others that has gripped the soul of the human race for the last half century.”
― Simon Dewar, Suspended In Dusk

“Horrors that were whispered to her from the moonless sky; warnings that slipped between her legs, on the stray vapours of the mist, caressing her with a chill that tightened her belly into a hard knot.”
― Simon Dewar, Suspended In Dusk

“Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.” William Arthur Ward, 1921 -1994”
― Simon Dewar, Suspended In Dusk

“The teeth in Allie’s pocket were chattering with the cold.”
― Simon Dewar, Suspended In Dusk