Everything You Need Quotes

“The realest and scariest monsters are internal demons, the specters of regret and guilt and lack of fulfillment, awareness of the entropic end of love, or the first shivers occasioned by the realization of our own ageing, and the eventual inevitability of death.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Everything You Need

“I realised suddenly that I was thirty-four and not making a very good job of it.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Everything You Need

“we all inhabit the same place during the day, at night each one of us is hurled into a several world. Well,”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Everything You Need

“Some stories, some people, deserve their length and span. They merit a novel-length treatment, have things to tell and other lives to illuminate.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Everything You Need

“Ignorance isn’t always bliss. Sometimes it’s just a huge pain in the arse,”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Everything You Need

“I cannot remember when I became exhausted instead of merely tired.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Everything You Need

“It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Everything You Need

“Are you okay?’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘You stopped talking. Just sat there looking intense.’ ‘Sorry. I had a stretch of interior monologue. Slightly lyrical. Takes a while to get through.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Everything You Need

“though we all inhabit the same place during the day, at night each one of us is hurled into a several world.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Everything You Need

“I said this was his story. I didn’t say I believed it. I don’t. You shouldn’t either. That would be best.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Everything You Need

“Everything you do is a one-way street.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Everything You Need

“If a door isn’t there then you can’t hope to go through it, but if it’s there but always locked, then you’re trapped. Someone is keeping the door shut.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Everything You Need

“of our jobs are bad jobs, but they’re the kind held by people in the background. People who are getting by. People who don’t play pool that well.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Everything You Need