Graveyard Shift Quotes

“It’s frighteningly easy to get lost in your own subconscious; any place you think you know is different after dark.”
― M.L. Rio, Graveyard Shift

“the most arresting odes to slumber are spoken by those who can’t have it.”
― M.L. Rio, Graveyard Shift

“He should have been dumber. Anybody that good-looking deserved to be dumb.”
― M.L. Rio, Graveyard Shift

“ Salva veritate!
With truth intact.”
― M.L. Rio, Graveyard Shift

“Normies talked about melatonin like it was fucking propofol.”
― M.L. Rio, Graveyard Shift

“By the time she was thirty, she had given up trying, tired of being tired, tired of telling people she was tired, tired of being bombarded with imbecilic advice to be less tired.”
― M.L. Rio, Graveyard Shift

“Occam’s razor,” Edie repeated. “The simplest explanation is the best explanation.”
― M.L. Rio, Graveyard Shift

“Have you tried a warm bath? Warm milk? Herbal tea? Reading before bed always works for me! No, shit-for-brains, she wanted to say—and sometimes did, I’ve only been trying to sleep since the day I was born, and googling home remedies never occurred to me.”
― M.L. Rio, Graveyard Shift

“Salva veritate. With truth intact.”
― M.L. Rio, Graveyard Shift

“Misery loved company and made strange bedfellows.”
― M.L. Rio, Graveyard Shift

“The world had no room for him, no use. It was easier to simply disappear.”
― M.L. Rio, Graveyard Shift

“Lockley was, whatever her shortcomings, objectively beautiful. And objectively beautiful people could bend the rules in a way objectively average people could not. Fact.”
― M.L. Rio, Graveyard Shift

“She’d always been irritable—chronic insomnia did that to a person—but rarely angry. Anger took energy. Anger took effort. She couldn’t afford to expend excess energy or effort on anything, but lately she couldn’t help herself. Lately she’d been angry.”
― M.L. Rio, Graveyard Shift

“She learned to live in the permanent twilight of sleep-deprivation psychosis. Life, if you could call it that, was a never-ending out-of-body experience.”
― M.L. Rio, Graveyard Shift