Pretenses Quotes Quotes

“When people are gone, they cannot pretend anymore. They cannot try to adjust to the expectations that they think others have on them, and they cannot prevent anyone from finding their darkest secrets. As they are down there, naked in the morgue, who they were is up here, just as exposed and waiting for a post-mortem.”
― Sima B. Moussavian, The way they leave: A crime novella about the delusions you choose to believe in