Sipsworth Quotes

“The only consolation of being the last to go is knowing the people you loved the most won't suffer the way you do in their absence.”
― Simon Van Booy, Sipsworth

“You know what your gift to the world is, Sipsworth?” Helen asks him. “It’s that you bring out the best in people.”
― Simon Van Booy, Sipsworth

“And herein lies the cruel paradox of human existence⁠—not that you die, but that all happiness eventually turns against you.”
― Simon Van Booy, Sipsworth

“Oh, the rage she had felt, which wasn’t rage at all, but a condition of loneliness.”
― Simon Van Booy, Sipsworth

“The only consolation of being the last to go,” she admits, “is knowing the people you loved the most won’t suffer the way you do in their absence.”
― Simon Van Booy, Sipsworth

“The only real proof of her advanced age are a chronic, persistent feeling of defeat, aching limbs, and the power of invisibility to anyone between the ages of ten and fifty.”
― Simon Van Booy, Sipsworth

“loved the most won’t suffer the way you do in their absence.”
― Simon Van Booy, Sipsworth

“The only consolation of being the last to go,” she admits, “is knowing the people you”
― Simon Van Booy, Sipsworth

“Helen is certain now that the creature in her sink must surely have been a child’s pet that outlived his use as a companion and was left to die. Except he is downstairs in a pie box. Not dying. And for the first time in many years, against her better judgement, neither is she.”
― Simon Van Booy, Sipsworth

“Each day was an impersonation of the one before with only a slight shuffle⁠—as though even for death there is a queue.”
― Simon Van Booy, Sipsworth

“Helen notices her hand trembling⁠—not because she’s holding a live mouse, but because it’s the first time she’s been touched by another living thing for over twenty years.”
― Simon Van Booy, Sipsworth

“None of this has any effect on her. It is no longer Helen’s world to worry about. And in her mind it is the same news over and over again, with the only difference being that people think they’re hearing it for the first time. She”
― Simon Van Booy, Sipsworth

“Those who in life has held back in matters of love would end in bitterness.”
― Simon Van Booy, Sipsworth