Don't Sleep with the Dead Quotes

“Be a little kind to yourself, please. If you can be whoever you want, wouldn't it be nice to be someone you liked?”
― Nghi Vo, Don't Sleep with the Dead

“...it was a hopeful thing, tending to your wounds, assuming you would be around to enjoy a time after they healed.”
― Nghi Vo, Don't Sleep with the Dead

“You learn, eventually, that pride and anger will not really keep you from what you truly want to do.”
― Nghi Vo, Don't Sleep with the Dead

“The problem of course was that anyone who tells other people stories first must tell themselves stories.”
― Nghi Vo, Don't Sleep with the Dead

“There is a golden sheen that sits over my memories of St. Paul, for all that they are not really mine. It insists that the Midwest is more genteel, more innocent, but of course that is a lie. You could destroy yourself anywhere. You could kill yourself anywhere.”
― Nghi Vo, Don't Sleep with the Dead

“And for the readers, everyone’s telling you a story: everyone who loves you and everyone who hates you. You get to decide what you make of them.”
― Nghi Vo, Don't Sleep with the Dead

“Don't sleep with the dead. You're not one of them, after all.”
― Nghi Vo, Don't Sleep with the Dead

“There was a desperation to the whole scene, as if we could feel the world tipping out from underneath us again, and if we only laughed loudly enough, danced long enough, and kept our eyes shut, it would stay as it was.”
― Nghi Vo, Don't Sleep with the Dead