The Ninth Life of Louis Drax Quotes

“Everyone said that one day I was going to have a big accident, an accident to end all accidents. One day you might look up and see a kid falling from the sky. That would be me.”
― Liz Jensen, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

“—To some extent. Men want to think the best of women, especially if they’re attractive. Isn’t there some truth in that? That we attribute moral goodness to attractive people? And to those who present themselves as victims? Natalie”
― Liz Jensen, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

“You plant a seed thinking it's love. It's only when the thing starts putting down roots that you realise it's not growing the way it should. But by then it's too late. It has sprouted foliage, blossomed and borne demented fruit.
What do you do with the sickness in you?”
― Liz Jensen, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

“A mixture of feelings- love, distaste, revulsion, pity- rose in my throat…There was an eternity to that moment, that see-sawing split- second when adoration clung and then lurched, spilling into chaos, rage, hate, anger: the desire to smash and embrace, love and destroy. Betrayal does that…Shows you how worthless love is, when its object is indifferent, ruthless, no more than a machine for surviving.”
― Liz Jensen, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

“The mind is infinitely larger than the world it inhabits. There is more to the human brain than machinery or meat. I believe in the soul, I thought suddenly. Everything I know about the brain tells me not to, but I believe in it still.”
― Liz Jensen, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

“In my sleepwalking years, I learned the existence of another dimension. I do not inhabit it any longer. But somehow, it continues to inhabit me.”
― Liz Jensen, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

“I’ve thought a lot about hope and come to the conclusion that either it’s there or it isn’t. No in between. You”
― Liz Jensen, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

“Everyone becomes a believer in a crisis, calling on a God with whom to cut a last-ditch deal. She’d”
― Liz Jensen, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax