The Bunker Diary Quotes

“Tip for the day: never eat a bible when you're starving to death.”
― Kevin Brooks, The Bunker Diary

“A dictionary contains all the books ever written, and all the books that will ever be written.”
― Kevin Brooks, The Bunker Diary

“this is what i know
it doesn't hurt any more
this is”
― Kevin Brooks, The Bunker Diary

“Los agujeros son engañosos. No sabes si estás dentro de uno hasta que ya has salido.”
― Kevin Brooks, The Bunker Diary

“Wir sind alle Tiere”
― Kevin Brooks, The Bunker Diary

“Jenny dies in my arms.
Goes to sleep, doesn't wake up.
My tears taste of blood.”
― Kevin Brooks, The Bunker Diary

“I never knew where I was. And now here I am, stuck in the depths of this cold white bunker … And you know what? I finally know how it feels to belong somewhere.”
― Kevin Brooks, The Bunker Diary

“They’re tricky things, holes. You don’t know you’re in one until you get out.”
― Kevin Brooks, The Bunker Diary

“Now. But if you think about it, if you ask yourself what the present actually is, when it is … I mean, how long is the present? How long is now? This moment, right now, the moment you exist in. How long does it last? A second? Half a second? A quarter of a second? An eighth of a second? You can go on halving it for ever, again and again and again. You can take it down to an infinitesimally small period of time, a squillionth of a nanosecond, and then you can still halve it again. How can you exist in such an immeasurably small period of time? You can’t, can you? It’s too small to experience. It’s gone before you know it. But if you can’t exist now, and you can’t exist in the future or the past—when the hell do you exist? Time …”
― Kevin Brooks, The Bunker Diary

“Notice anything odd about that? Maybe it’s just a coincidence, but apart from me and Jenny it seems like we’re all trying to keep as far away from each other as possible. Which is kind of strange, don’t you think? I mean, here we all are, stuck together in this hellish situation, desperate to find a way out, and we’re behaving like strangers on a bus. Or maybe it’s not so strange after all? It’s just what people do, I suppose.”
― Kevin Brooks, The Bunker Diary