Death Will Have Your Eyes Quotes

“Every day we reconstruct ourselves out of the salvage of our yesterdays.”
― James Sallis, Death Will Have Your Eyes

“Things of the world try to connect. Prodigal rain issues from a sky into which trees rise like pleading hands. Days bear us lightly across the face of the world as every year the ground pulls harder, recalling like a spurned lover, ever more fixedly, how much it wants us.”
― James Sallis, Death Will Have Your Eyes

“I once read a story by this guy named Harlan Ellison ending: That night it rained, everywhere in the known universe. I was never too sure what the ending meant in terms of Ellison's story, but anyone who sits alone in a motel room for hours, watching the rain wash the world away, begins to understand. Knows what it feels like.”
― James Sallis, Death Will Have Your Eyes

“It was nine o'clock, cloudy, and a little like one of those science fiction movies where a few survivors are clinging to the wreckage, living out their days in the dry husk of civilization.”
― James Sallis, Death Will Have Your Eyes