Tracy Wild

“[They are] trying to change what you and I call reality, they want to muddy it like water, if you say it enough times, then it must be so, and if you keep saying it over and over people accept it as true -- this is an old idea of course, it really is nothing new, but you're watching in your own time and not in a book.”
― Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

“That’s the very hardest thing to understand about death: nothing. That the world shrinks without him, because instead of him there is just emptiness. The vibration of his laughter, the smell of his skin, his phone number. How can someone who meant everything to Ted become… nothing at all? It’s the incomprehensibility of death that drives people mad, so that we forget how to breathe and how to walk, until we spend whole nights stumbling about in dark rooms, calling and calling, trying to understand how there can be a phone number that no longer belongs to anyone.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“she says the government has taken control of the judiciary by putting their own people in, that’s the nub of the problem, once you get your own people in you can do whatever you like.”
― Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

“thinks about her eldest son, this silent process of growth, the cartilage extending and converting to bone, the bones solidifying, sustaining the child towards a future unknown and yet such a future must contain within it the sum total of all possibility. It was only a heartbeat ago when Mark was crawling on the floor and she turns to watch him as he steps into the living room, the future made instant.”
― Paul Lynch, Prophet Song