People Die Quotes

“He couldn’t die by degrees in a life like that, didn’t think he could do it even for a few days, a revulsion that probably sprang from the same part of his character as the violence he’d come to live by.”
― Kevin Wignall, People Die

“he had the wrong constitution for disappearing. Because that was what disappearing would mean, the life of a permanent tourist, soulless, drowning in small talk.”
― Kevin Wignall, People Die

“He slept and no dreams came to him, his mind sinking into emptiness, the night devoid of shocks, of the heaving fishhook pulls on his heart, like lines tautening sharply against distant catches.”
― Kevin Wignall, People Die

“It was a rare thing for someone in his position to see what death was, not in the instant but in the aftermath, where all its energies were absorbed.”
― Kevin Wignall, People Die

“It never ceased to cause him wonder, that here had been a living person and now she was gone, fading away again, the city waking up without her as if she’d never been there. It was an incredible thing, beyond comprehension, as incredible as being there in the first place.”
― Kevin Wignall, People Die