The Haunted Book Quotes

“Memory was a story you told yourself about yourself, extrapolated from a tiny dot-matrix of facts.”
― Jeremy Dyson, The Haunted Book

“Everyone had an ulterior motive in his worldview. Everyone was self-serving and therefore a potential instrument of pain. The world was a lonely, awful, brutal, terrible place.”
― Jeremy Dyson, The Haunted Book

“I find the post-industrial environment of central Manchester oppressive and perturbing. The treeless labyrinths of monumental brick edifices that line streets both narrow and wide cannot help but make one feel hemmed in.”
― Jeremy Dyson, The Haunted Book

“We learned that we are the stories we tell ourselves, and so we have to tell those stories with great care. Because whatever stories we tell ourselves, are true.”
― Jeremy Dyson, The Haunted Book

“Phenomenalists are concerned with symptoms rather than causes: with rains of animals pouring from the sky; with impossible coincidences; with inexplicable sightings of creatures or objects. The conclusion these observations lead to is that there are, in fact, three modes of reality, "hard", "psychological" and, between the two, "phenomenal", and all of these are active, all blur into one, when truthfully described, without the need to immediately leap in with rational explanation.”
― Jeremy Dyson, The Haunted Book

“Is life a happy sadness? Or a sad happiness?”
― Jeremy Dyson, The Haunted Book