This Book Will Bury Me Quotes

“Maybe that’s the real definition of fate: when the universe hands you exactly what you want, the one thing you could never turn down, a perfect trap of your own making.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“I'd finally accepted that mystery is at the heart of love. That it's our deep yearning to know the ones we love in ways that are ultimately impossible... We will never have long enough - and that keeps us bound to them, forever chasing.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“Because he was human and started dying the minute he was born. Because it was always going to happen, and it was always going to hurt.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“Sometimes the joy of being human lies in the things we cannot describe.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“When you love someone, you assume their passing from the world will hit you like a disturbance in the Force. My lack of awareness felt like a betrayal, a sign I hadn’t loved him well enough.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“Don’t you wish it worked like that—that love was any sort of protection?”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“You want what I once wanted, that insatiable longing for answers, the most human of urges. It’s what started my journey, too, after all. Our desire to order the unknowable, touch the unreachable, shine a light on what’s hidden—it’s universal. We’re uncomfortable with ambiguity, with living suspended in the mess of the world.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“It’s what we will never know about the ones we love that binds us to them.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“To love is to reach your hand across a distance that you'll never fully close.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“Our desire to order the unknowable, touch the unreachable, shine a light on what’s hidden—it’s universal. We’re uncomfortable with ambiguity, with living suspended in the mess of the world.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“Mystery is at the heart of love.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“Who was my father? Not one person, but many. The little boy in Tennessee, the sailor in Italy, the proud man at my high school graduation, the scribe on the deck of the Voyager. In his death, he’d become so vast he could no longer be depended to a single time and place. Not a black hole of absence, but a vortex of possibilities.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“When someone hits you, you hit back!”
“Wrong. Sometimes you turn your cheek and take the beating.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“I’d finally accepted that mystery is at the heart of love. That it’s our deep yearning to know the ones we love in ways that are ultimately impossible—we will never get close enough, never have long enough—that keep us bound to them, forever chasing. We are all of us searchers, I think. To love is to reach your hand across a distance that you’ll never fully close.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“I’ve come to think fate is a trap we set for ourselves.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“He was the first thing she couldn’t get through effort.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“What an agony, being right.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“Being with her was both a relief and the last unraveling of my restraint.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“I would learn that bald-faced denial is a common response to grief. In fact, everything I did that night and would do and think over the following days and weeks was straight out of a textbook. It’s funny— I felt so alone in my pain, felt my grief was so annihilating that I must be experiencing a level of devastation that had never been recorded. But every bit of what I felt had been rehearsed by a billion people over tens of thousands of years of human existence. death is the one thing we all share. I was just the latest in line.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“Death is the one thing we all share.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“Racism, classism, pretty bias: they color how we treat the dead as much as the living, no matter how much we swear we’re in the justice business. Lightly used to say racism is so pervasive you can’t even escape it by dying.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“know that must make me unbelievably stupid—at the very least, the worst detective in America—but I never once suspected. I thought it was Odell the whole time. I was terrified of him.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“I did. I lied to Jim and that poor Howell couple. I lied to my wife, my old friends from the army. Back then, I lied to everyone.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“forever chasing. We are all of us searchers, I think. To love is to reach your hand across”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“Madeleine forwarded an email Harlow sent her begging to get out of the lease to a bunch of her friends. Everyone was accusing Harlow of being a narc and a wet blanket. It was super mean girl behavior.” I chewed”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“Apparently not even six murdered girls and a serial killer warranted tighter security.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“No more trauma porn!” “This is where my sister died,” Natalie shouted. “It’s not your entertainment!”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“If only he could’ve known how much that single sentence meant to me.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“Harlow wakes up, sees what must’ve been the most horrific crime scene you can imagine—the police report said there was blood all over the walls, even on the ceiling—and then her next move is to call her friend Jordan?”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“The audacity of the DPD coming after us. Amateur sleuths make no money doing this. We do it purely because we care. And Reingold tried to tell the world we’re trolls, or worse, murder-voyeurs. Whoever leaked those files and called the DPD on their shit is a hero.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me