J.S. Monroe > Quotes

“As Jonathan says, delusions are often no more than expressions of our deepest wishes - and of our most profound fears”
― J.S. Monroe, The Man on Hackpen Hill

“The brain is a frightening thing, capable of remembering so much of what we want it to forget and forgetting the one thing that we most want it to remember. And then, years later, it chooses to work, operating like an autonomous neural state, summoning a nightmare from beyond the city walls, the badlands of amnesia.”
― J.S. Monroe, Forget My Name

“Often all our memory needs is a trigger, a familiar face, for everything to start coming back.”
― J.S. Monroe, Forget My Name

“found out about your dad?’ ‘Then I escaped. I wanted to tell”
― J.S. Monroe, Find Me

“For Silas, mortuaries will forever be synonymous with professional failure”
― J.S. Monroe, The Man on Hackpen Hill

“He's back as a 'volunteer' - as punishment for leaking classified information to Bella. MI5 must have a dark sense of humour, silencing him with the very experiments that he was trying to expose”
― J.S. Monroe, The Man on Hackpen Hill

“Jim seems so rational, systematic - it must be the scientist in him - but there's an artist's passion about him too. He's also calm, reassuring company, until something slips and he's on edge like a wild animal: furtive, alert”
― J.S. Monroe, The Man on Hackpen Hill

“My agent told me early on in my writing career that I must bear one thing in mind above all else: jeopardy. I always try to write books that I want to read, so inevitably the stories that put my characters in danger are based on my own fears".”
― J.S. Monroe

“Does Tony has something to do with her disappearance?”
― J.S. Monroe, The Last Thing She Remembers

“He walks back over to the body. She too looks as if she's fallen from space and is now hugging the earth's surface for comfort, her cheek pressed against the ground, hands clutching at the flattened wheat”
― J.S. Monroe, The Man on Hackpen Hill

“Crop circles are a pain in the arse, as far as he's concerned. Dreamt up in the pub over a pint or three by people with nothing better to do and then hailed as extraterrestrial messages by the croppie community - the believers”
― J.S. Monroe, The Man on Hackpen Hill

“Nadzieja to coś bardzo intymnego i kruchego (...) i bardzo łatwo ją zgasić.”
― J.S. Monroe, Find Me

“He's still a blur but Jim knows it's him because of the sickly sweet aftershave. Dr Haslam never goes anywhere without it. Maybe it's to mask the smell of other people's fear”
― J.S. Monroe, The Man on Hackpen Hill

“We forget things when our souls are troubled.”
― J.S. Monroe, Forget My Name