Carnival For The Dead Quotes

“the end, it is the mystery that lasts and not the explanation.”
― David Hewson, Carnival for the Dead

“Perhaps,” he continued, “this capacity for evil is in all of us, then, and it’s largely down to fortune whether we encounter the circumstance that breathes life into it or not. Just as it’s luck that determines when or if that faulty gene breaks and gives you cancer or Marfan or the physique of an Olympian.”
― David Hewson, Carnival for the Dead

“His dad, dying in the hospital, had said something about pain. It stuck to you like flour. You thought you could wash it all away, out of your clothes, out of your hair. But some stray grain always persisted, slyly avoiding your well-meant attentions and the drugs the doctors had. Life was like that. The only thing to do, he said, was your best.”
― David Hewson, Carnival for the Dead

“Dependence breeds neither cordiality nor respect. - Pg. 77”
― David Hewson, Carnival For The Dead

“He was determined to take the first flight out, wherever it went. Anywhere had to be better than this.”
― David Hewson, Carnival for the Dead