The Dead I Know Quotes

“It gets easier when you've met and dealt with your own grief. It gets easier, but it'll probably never be easy.”
― Scot Gardner, The Dead I Know

“Hold on, don't skip all the good bits, I thought. Don't dream me a life without the romance. Let me do the coloring in myself.”
― Scot Gardner, The Dead I Know

“It wasn’t hard to imagine them surrounded by their families as they did the last of their breathing. Said their goodbyes. Kissed cheeks. No luggage to check in. Leave your body with us, I thought. We’ll look after that.”
― Scot Gardner, The Dead I Know: A Dark Young Adult Psychological Drama About Funeral Homes and Lost Memory

“The sounds were trapped in the tank with him. His fingers pawed at the wet plastic but could find no hold.”
― Scot Gardner, The Dead I Know

“Something was stretched to the point of irreparable damage, and I wanted to bounce on it until it broke.”
― Scot Gardner, The Dead I Know

“I wanted to tell him more. I had the fleeting desire to tell him a lot more, but old habits and the fear of revealing too much made the words congeal in my throat.”
― Scot Gardner, The Dead I Know

“To truly know death, you'd have to have loved.”
― Scot Gardner, The Dead I Know

“The parts of my new job that filled me with abject and irrational fear, that twisted me into all kinds of knots, were the raw emotions of those left alive. It was the living who were the great unknown.”
― Scot Gardner, The Dead I Know

“The tiny conversation they'd had would reveal no evidence of her frayed edges.”
― Scot Gardner, The Dead I Know

“Was it courage that made her take the last step, or weakness? Was it loss that walked her to the edge, or a search for freedom?”
― Scot Gardner, The Dead I Know

“There's no shame," John Barton said quietly. "Funerals are the place for letting it out. They're the last free-for-all in our society. Without them we would all turn to stone from unexpressed emotion.”
― Scot Gardner, The Dead I Know

“When sleep is not a sanctuary, darkness sometimes is. When the mess of human activity nags at you, the ocean can make you deaf with its rhythmic wash.”
― Scot Gardner, The Dead I Know

“My words dried up. I'd already used more than my daily quota, and the dull ache in my head was a warning not to overdo it. I shrugged.”
― Scot Gardner, The Dead I Know

“The police protected the living, ambulance officers protected the injured, and we protected the dead. All as it should be.”
― Scot Gardner, The Dead I Know: A Dark Young Adult Psychological Drama About Funeral Homes and Lost Memory

“I'm the drowning boy. I've been drowning for years.”
― Scot Gardner, The Dead I Know

“She stared at me with that questioning look people often get when I open my mouth.”
― Scot Gardner, The Dead I Know

“Here was a task with boundaries and purpose, a small thing that made sense. A small thing I could do well.”
― Scot Gardner, The Dead I Know