The Whisper Man

by Alex North

the truth is that most strangers are decent people, whereas the home can be the most dangerous place of all.

The world can be brutal when you’re as quiet and solitary as he was, and I didn’t want him to go through what I had at his age.

When you go after something as hard as he had, there were few things as irritating as someone who could have had it more easily but never seemed to want it.

“If you leave a door half open, soon you’ll hear the whispers spoken.”

Nothing like a terrifying couplet talking about a serial killer

Courage is not the absence of fear, Pete knew. Courage requires fear.

She was an equally keen believer in the idea that guilt was about as unhelpful as emotions got. Once you let guilt get ahold of you, the bastard never let go.

Good quote!

“Say it.” “If you leave a door half open, soon you’ll hear the whispers spoken.” “And the rest.” Jake closed his eyes. “If you play outside alone, soon you won’t be going home.”

Oh great. More terrifying rhyming

“If your window’s left unlatched, you’ll hear him tapping at the glass.”

you’re lonely, sad, and blue, the Whisper Man will come for you.”

but grief is a stew with a thousand ingredients, and not all of them are palatable.

While it might be true that we still loved each other when we argued, it didn’t mean that we loved ourselves.

Tomorrow is always a new day, but there’s never any reason to think it will be a better one.

Depressing

she had seen plenty of people emerge from horrific, abusive childhoods and grow into decent adults. There were as many paths out of hell as there were people, and the vast majority of them ascended.

We choose our own paths

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