Presence Quotes

“Icebergs, hundreds of them, lay awash in the great cold sea, and they were all crumbling, splintered, visibly and audibly breaking apart like gigantic mirrors.”
― Ralph Burton, Presence

“Either that, or he would end up strangling them all in their sleep.”
― Ralph Burton, Presence

“A few minutes wasn’t good enough, apparently, for the Jack-in-the-boxes”
― Ralph Burton, Presence

“Freddy, I’ve found this place. A magical, incredible place. Santa’s Grotto.”
― Ralph Burton, Presence

“The door revealed this room of cuddly toy bears all piled up in pyramids.”
― Ralph Burton, Presence

“It took five minutes for him to leave the campsite, and by the time he passed the gravesite where they had buried Mark, George had experienced second thoughts.”
― Ralph Burton, Presence

“Laid out in her sleeping bag, covered in snow, Carrie looked like an ice princess, but she also looked like her mother.”
― Ralph Burton, Presence

“When they woke up the next morning, George always felt this fleeting sadistic disappointment they hadn’t died in each other’s arms the night before.”
― Ralph Burton, Presence

“He had promised to love her until the tips of his fingers turned stiff and black but now, as they lay together in a tent somewhere in the Antarctic in the depths of winter, a blizzard raging outside, he was fast reconsidering.”
― Ralph Burton, Presence