Just Another Dead Author Quotes

“The way the world is going, we need books and stories more than ever.”
― Katarina Bivald, Just Another Dead Author: A Novel

“All these sounds old houses made, but you never thought of in the daytime: rattling pipes, creaking floorboards, trees outside rustling in the wind, twigs suddenly snapping, by animals or by your own imagination.”
― Katarina Bivald, Just Another Dead Author: A Novel

“I was much too lazy to chase success, and definitely too lazy to want to catch it. It’s extremely exhausting being successful,”
― Katarina Bivald, Just Another Dead Author: A Novel

“Berit noted that almost all of the dead bodies were female, as if none of the writers could imagine male bodies naked and mutilated. She wondered what it said about our society that we could so easily kill off women for our entertainment.”
― Katarina Bivald, Just Another Dead Author: A Novel

“no one knows what’s going on inside your head. They can’t read your mind,” Claudia said. “My mother can,” Mildred said. “She’s been dead fifteen years, but I’m still convinced she hears everything I think and knows immediately if I’m about to do something I shouldn’t. God might too, but I’m less sure about him.”
― Katarina Bivald, Just Another Dead Author: A Novel

“In her experience, toilets were a part of the job. A surprising number of crimes was committed near them. It’s just the way it was.”
― Katarina Bivald, Just Another Dead Author: A Novel

“she was more inclined to suspect the faculty rather than the students, as it took time to work up enough murderous feelings to kill someone.”
― Katarina Bivald, Just Another Dead Author: A Novel

“I don’t even know whether I hated or admired him. Maybe both. Real feelings are complicated in that way.”
― Katarina Bivald, Just Another Dead Author: A Novel