The Uninvited Quotes

“The thought of losing him again kills me. This is of course a figure of speech, I will remain alive, but I will not know happiness.”
― Liz Jensen, The Uninvited

“All I can conjecture is that whatever is shaking the foundations of the reality we know, it is something we have summoned.”
― Liz Jensen, The Uninvited

“My belief is that when you die, that's it. As a mature person, one should accept that. But despite the total absence of concrete evidence, billions on this planet are convinced there is more. Most curious.”
― Liz Jensen, The Uninvited

“There are moments in life – so few you can count them – when time's perspective seems to shift quite literally. In those moments, a second can last a minute, or freeze to near-eternity. Soldiers know this. But homes can be war zones too.”
― Liz Jensen, The Uninvited

“People are always glad when you address them in their own language, I have found, even though your knowledge may not extend further than what you have memorised from a dictionary or phrase book.”
― Liz Jensen, The Uninvited

“I dislike change of any kind. But paradoxically, something in me – a kind of information-hunger – seeks and requires it. If sharks stop moving, they die. Kaitlin once said my brain was like that.”
― Liz Jensen, The Uninvited

“None of us got it right. The message was written in letters too big to read, letters that could only be deciphered from a vast distance or an unusual angle. We were as good as blind. This, by the way, is a figurative expression. Unlike many on the spectrum, I can deploy those.”
― Liz Jensen, The Uninvited

“Outside, the moon is a thin, luminous scrape and the stars throb weakly above the sea.”
― Liz Jensen, The Uninvited

“The French term un acte manqué describes a form of self-sabotage whereby the unconscious sets about wrecking – for whatever reason – what the conscious has built.”
― Liz Jensen, The Uninvited

“I think we make a big mistake about ghosts,’ he said suddenly. ‘We think they are from the past. We think they are all dead. But they are alive. And some of them are not even born yet. They are travellers.’ ‘Travellers?”
― Liz Jensen, The Uninvited

“Will it take the rest of my life to process what has happened? I don't know.

If Freddy were here, he would say, 'Yet', as per the rules of a playful accord we have concerning unacquired knowledge, whereby if one of us said they didn't know something, the other had to say 'Yet'. And then the other one--usually me--would provide the missing information, or we'd look it up, or just speculate.”
― Liz Jensen, The Uninvited