Kill Your Darlings Quotes

“But she kept her eyes on him, forming a memory she would one day push to the very back of her mind. It would go into a room with other memories. Not gone forever, of course. But the room had a door and she knew how to shut it.”
― Peter Swanson, Kill Your Darlings

“The happiest people are the ones who are able to forget the past. Don’t be sentimental about people, I guess is what I’m saying.”
― Peter Swanson, Kill Your Darlings

“Sometimes people are only good for part of their lives, and then they move on. Or we move on without them.”
― Peter Swanson, Kill Your Darlings

“A carousel. I feel like riding a carousel is kind of a fickle thing. You can get on and off and pick different partners.” “You mean different horses?” “Right.” “I don’t know,” Wendy said, sliding her arm through Thom’s and moving closer to him. “Maybe it’s a perfect metaphor for marriage. You go around and around, getting nowhere, and you feel vaguely nauseous the whole time.”
― Peter Swanson, Kill Your Darlings

“If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. —Thomas de Quincey”
― Peter Swanson, Kill Your Darlings