Ian Sear

“Killing time isn’t as difficult as it sounds. I can shoot a hundred numbers through the chest and watch them bleed decimal points in the palm of my hand. I can rip the numbers off a clock and watch the hour hand tick tick tick its final tock just before I fall asleep. I can suffocate seconds just by holding my breath. I’ve been murdering minutes for hours and no one seems to mind.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“No one really dies, Mr Pollard. They just go on from here. Grief is good, but guilt is pointless.”
― Dean Koontz, The Bad Place: A gripping horror novel of spine-chilling suspense

“Sad people are the only real ones. They can tell you the truth about things; they have always known that there is no one you can depend upon forever and no change in your life, however great, that can keep you from being in the end what you were in the beginning: lost and lonely, sitting on an oilcloth watching the rest of the world do the butterfly stroke.”
― Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation

“Some people say it gets easier, but I think you just adapt. The grief doesn’t go; you just mould yourself around it.”
― Jo Leevers, Tell Me How This Ends