S.K. Tremayne > Quotes

“It's not so much my own death that is intolerable, it's the death of those around me. Because I love them. And part of me dies with them. Therefore all love, if you like, is a form of suicide.”
― S.K. Tremayne, The Ice Twins

“Everything you say is absolutely right — the death of those we love is so much worse than our own death, and yes all love is a form of suicide, you destroy yourself, you surrender yourself, you kill something in yourself, willingly, if you really love.”
― S.K. Tremayne, The Ice Twins

“We're all astronauts, really, aren't we; interstellar astronauts, travelling so far into the blackness we can never return.”
― S. K Tremayne

“Having a kid is like an industrial revolution of the emotions. Suddenly you can mass produce worry, and guilt.”
― S. K Tremayne

“It's like a dream, but who cares? I want a dream. Right this minute, that's exactly what I want. Because reality has been pretty fucking crap for a while now.”
― S.K. Tremayne

“Maybe nothing could extinguish the yearning of human love; maybe it travelled on for ever, through the darkness. Like the light from dead stars.”
― S.K. Tremayne, The Fire Child

“I once read a survey that explained how moving is as traumatic as divorce, or as the death of a parent.”
― S.K. Tremayne, The Ice Twins

“I have, I am, I—” “Lydia, babe, Lydie…”
― S.K. Tremayne, The Ice Twins

“The sense of loss throbs, in this study, like a reopened wound at the heart of Carnhallow. And I feel like I am the shard in the flesh. Renewing the hurt.”
― S.K. Tremayne, The Fire Child

“Kartais tylėjimas pasako daugiau už žodžius.”
― S.K. Tremayne, The Ice Twins

“Yet they were so tempting. Because they all had those blissful views of the river. Mum liked to sit on her balcony, reading Swedish thrillers, drinking supermarket Chardonnay.”
― S.K. Tremayne, The Ice Twins

“Why do you keep calling me Kirstie, Mummy?
Kirstie is dead. It was Kirstie that died. I'm Lydia.”
― S.K. Tremayne, The Ice Twins

“Jag är rädd för båda mina döttrar, de båda spökena i detta hus, de båda spökena i min hjärna; Istvillingarna, som smälter, som smälter ihop.”
― S.K. Tremayne, The Ice Twins

“Please leave the stone on the seat, it is to keep out the mink.”
― S. K. Tremayne

“He wanted to hurt his wife for what happened. Punish her. Hurt her badly.
Why not? his daughter was dead.”
― S.K. Tremayne, The Ice Twins