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“How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home?”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“If this isn’t hell, the devil is surely taking notes.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Too little information and you're blind, too much and you're blinded.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“We are never more ourselves than when we think people aren’t watching.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Nothing like a mask to reveal somebody's true nature.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Can’t you see, these masks we wear betray us. They reveal us.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“So many memories and secrets, so many burdens. Every life has such weight. I don’t know how anybody carries even one.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Anger’s solid, it has weight. You can beat your fists against it. Pity’s a fog to become lost within.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Life doesn’t always leave you a choice in how you live it.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“What use is rearranging the furniture if you burn the house down doing it?”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“The future isn’t a warning my friend, it’s a promise, and it won’t be broken by us. That’s the nature of the trap we’re caught in.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“If this is hell, then it's one of our making.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“One by one I knit these new memories together until I’ve got five minutes of past to wrap myself in.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“That’s the beauty of corrupt men, you can always rely on them to be corrupt”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“The last time I entered this forest, my mind never made it back.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Yet instead of being angry, he pities me. That's the worst part. Anger's solid, it has weight. You can beat your fists against it. Pity's a fog to become lost in.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Nothing brings people together better than death. It’s like the sound of a high-pitched whistle for a dog that has strayed from its owner.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“Nothing brings people together better than death. It’s like the sound of a high-pitched whistle for a dog that has strayed from its owner. When it happens, they always come. Death reminds us that life isn’t infinite and that one day, our time will come too. We pause to listen to that reminder, to acknowledge it, to show it the respect it demands, and then we spread out into the world like pappi on a dying dandelion, waiting for it to call us again, hoping the next call will be to gather, rather than to be gathered around.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“It’s odd. Some people never see it coming, others have a countdown, and I don’t know which is worse.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“I know I’ll never hear her say it again—my name, the one she gave me. I wish I could reach out and grab it, stow it away in a safe place, like some sort of family heirloom. But it belongs to this moment. Like her, it’s not something I can keep forever.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“I’ve thought about how our street goes nowhere, almost like foreshadowing for the people who stuck around.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“Money changes people the same way death does. If you don’t know how to manage every aspect of it, it’ll bring out the worst in you.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“It’s funny how memory works. Our brain decides what’s most important and retains it—the rest, it just lets go. Song lyrics we remember for years, decades even. Are they important? Most likely not. But they’re tied to salient moments.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“She smiles, not like she’s happy to see me, but like she’s happy she’s not me.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“I spent my whole life being nervous up until I realized that life happens in between the beats of our own heart, and if it thumps too fast, there’s no space for us to live.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“I’m not sure if he usually drinks this much or if this is out of the ordinary for him. But then again, grief is like an airport. There are no rules or social norms. You just do what you gotta do to pass the time until you reach your next destination”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“That’s how memories are—dormant dust waiting to be stirred up.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“Anger is easy, Rebecca. It’s the most rudimentary of human feelings. Babies experience anger. Psychopaths experience anger. People with little to no brain activity experience anger. But compassion and forgiveness are challenging. They’re the most complex of all the emotions.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“We value the briefest moments most because they’re the ones that define us—a first kiss, a sudden death, an accident, a marriage proposal, a high . . .”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“I guess you can only grow so much when you’re stuck in the same place—like a house plant that’s never been repotted.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are