Rubbernecker Quotes

“Death was an inverse Big Bang; an impossible magic trick where everything had become nothing in the very same instant, where one state had been replaced so completely by another that no evidence of the first could be detected, and where the catalyst had been vaporized by the sheer shock of the new.”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker

“The coma ward was boring yet difficult. Like golf.”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker

“Everybody else possessed the key to popularity and happiness, and his clumsy attempts to find his own key always ended with other children looking at him funny, or calling him names.”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker

“You're different, you know."
"Only different from you," he said. "Not different from me.”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker

“There are worse things than dying."
"Really?" said Meg.
"Of course," said the tech. "Living badly.”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker

“Sweet little thing says she still wants to marry him. Breaks your heart: She sighed and sounded sincere, so Tracy nodded in a way she hoped denoted that she, too, was a little bit heartbroken — even though she thought that if her (hypothetical) boyfriend were in a coma for more than a few weeks, she’d probably just cut her losses and move on, not stick around to watch him shit in his pants for the next fifty years.”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker

“you couldn’t see them; they were always somewhere – under the bed, in the machine, down the back of the sofa – and eventually they turned up. Sooner than eventually, if you actively looked for them.”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker

“boring yet difficult. Like golf.”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker

“That thing that changes between here and there. Between life and death. I can’t feel it; I want to see it. I want to know what it is.”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker

“The accident had been just that - the unlucky culmination of million tiny moments that had fallen into place - or out of it - on that bright spring afternoon. He understood that sometimes things happened that nobody could prepare for; that what was done was done and that there was no going back. - Pg. 406”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker

“How can a human being die so easily when they’re so hard to break? - Pg. 119”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker

“Love is never bad, wherever you find it. - Pg. 55”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker

“After that, he went back to school. For the first few days, he got a lift with Weird Nick and his mother. Then one day when he got home, they had the Fiesta instead of the blue Volkswagen and a new jar of jam, and life returned to some kind of normality – on the outside, at least”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker

“On another night – a warmer night; or if the fire had not gone out; or if the cat had been sitting on her lap – habit alone might have been enough to keep her going.
But this night was cold and this night was dark, and the cat was outside killing small things.”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker

“Comprendión que a veces pasan cosas para las que nadie está preparado; que lo hecho hecho está, y no hay vuelta atrás.”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker

“Los treinta cadáveres que ven ante ustedes son ahora los restos mortales de personas que han donado su cuerpo llevados por el deseo de ayudarles en sus estudios,”
― Belinda Bauer, Morir no es tan fácil

“It has sick on the sleeve. And no apostrophe.”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker