The way they leave Quotes

“Regrets are sinkholes. You are walking on a field of flowers, expecting solid ground, where all at once there is none and with your disappointed expectations you are being swallowed by what lies beneath you, until you cannot see it anymore: not the field of flowers and neither the path you have been walking on”
― Sima B. Moussavian, The way they leave: A crime novella about the delusions you choose to believe in

“Deceit is a hill, the snowy surface of which you keep on soaking in cold water, so it will freeze over, and as you focus solely on doing it, you fail to notice how slippery it gets until you end up sliding down yourself.”
― Sima B. Moussavian, The way they leave: A crime novella about the delusions you choose to believe in

“When people are gone, they cannot pretend anymore. They cannot try to adjust to the expectations that they think others have on them, and they cannot prevent anyone from finding their darkest secrets. As they are down there, naked in the morgue, who they were is up here, just as exposed and waiting for a post-mortem.”
― Sima B. Moussavian, The way they leave: A crime novella about the delusions you choose to believe in

“When it starts out, life is an equation that almost solely consists of the unknown. Of unlimited options and infinite promise That's why at first it feels interesting, the unknown and the unforeseen make it exciting. All the first times and the new discoveries, the adventures and the surprising element that is immanent in the unfamiliar.”
― Sima B. Moussavian, The way they leave: A crime novella about the delusions you choose to believe in

“When it starts out, life is an equation that almost solely consists of unknown. Inherent in it: unlimited options, Infinite promise.”
― Sima B. Moussavian, The way they leave: A crime novella about the delusions you choose to believe in