ML Downie

“our fate is determined in rooms that must be easy to clean.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Old Dreams Die: Stories

“a tiny, fragile butterfly the same colour as the eyes of the one you love, a colour for which there are no words.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Old Dreams Die: Stories

“dawn was thinking about breaking, at the stage where it was rolling about under the sheets after its alarm had gone off, weighing up the pros and cons of getting out of bed.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, Quite Ugly One Morning

“large black dogs can be a dark omen, did you know that? they foretell death, just like banshees do, and they follow you, and if you but look at them in the eye you are condemned.
still I´d rather see a dog when the time comes. the soft fur and the glassy eyes and the friendly bark of a playful hound, to take me gently to the realms of heaven.”
― Oscar de Muriel, A Mask of Shadows