My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.
Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, youdon’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn’t look like drowning and somepeople scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.
What you couldn’t see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.
You want to brawl. You want to fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.
Tell yourself you’re dead, the way Matt does, so the past can’t hurt you.
….. desire is so much sweeter when you cant have it.
…she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.
No one can help but stare at the monster, because horror is a cousin to awe.
You really didn’t appreciate how thick, how powerful water was until you had to fight it.
They call it the drowning instinct. It’s when drowning doesn’t look like drowning. (pg. 241)