Stay Dead Quotes

“Because the passage of time becomes molasses when dealing with the death of a loved one. A month. A year. Two years. All the same.”
― Anne Frasier, Stay Dead

“But sometimes the monster in the closet was really just a worthless clown in a coma.”
― Anne Frasier, Stay Dead

“People were always trying to fix the past. They deliberately, often unconsciously, relived events similar to something that had gone wrong.”
― Anne Frasier, Stay Dead

“Had anybody ever touched her this way? She didn’t think so. With breathing coming in short bursts. With hesitance? Sweet hesitance, and maybe some disbelief.”
― Anne Frasier, Stay Dead

“Being in Savannah was like landing on some alien planet where even the residents were visitors, living on the shoulders of a dark and brutal and beautiful past.”
― Anne Frasier, Stay Dead

“sometimes the eureka moment came when your mind was distracted, when you suddenly found yourself focusing on something else, usually something mundane. And then, out of the blue, pieces would start to fit together.”
― Anne Frasier, Stay Dead

“When you dealt with bad people all day long, pretty soon everybody was painted in dark colors. The world was painted in dark colors.”
― Anne Frasier, Stay Dead

“Those people, once removed from your life, were hard to put back. You could try, and you could think it was going to work, and you could enjoy the company and the reminiscing, but it was hard, if not impossible, to make them a part of your life once again. And so opening that door invited in a certain bittersweet melancholy, and a reminder that life was fleeting. And those moments that seem bigger than a movie? Even those moments fade and become part of our mental scrapbooks.”
― Anne Frasier, Stay Dead

“Heritage . . . People spent their lives trying to leave it behind, hang on to it, or find it.”
― Anne Frasier, Stay Dead

“She drank the wine so fast that her face felt hot, and her limbs had that warm glow that only wine or a fever could generate.”
― Anne Frasier, Stay Dead

“Those people, once removed from your life, were hard to put back. You could try, and you could think it was going to work, and you could enjoy the company and the reminiscing, but it was hard, if not impossible, to make them a part of your life once again.”
― Anne Frasier, Stay Dead

“But the unexamined life wasn’t a life worth living. Who’d said that? Socrates. Yes, Socrates. Smart guy. Right”
― Anne Frasier, Stay Dead

“But she regretted not looking her up once she became an adult. It was so easy to let these things slide. It was the way of adults. It became easier to let it go than to restart something that couldn’t be restarted. Because those reacquaintances often didn’t move past nostalgia. Those people, once removed from your life, were hard to put back. You could try, and you could think it was going to work, and you could enjoy the company and the reminiscing, but it was hard, if not impossible, to make them a part of your life once again. And so opening that door invited in a certain bittersweet melancholy, and a reminder that life was fleeting. And those moments that seem bigger than a movie? Even those moments fade and become part of our mental scrapbooks.”
― Anne Frasier, Stay Dead

“his chest rising and falling as his body took shallow breaths. IV bag on a rack, urine bag on the side of the bed. He was ten years older than Elise, but he looked at least sixty now, his skin gray and dehydrated. He looked like a corpse. “I’ve seen a lot of dead bodies in”
― Anne Frasier, Stay Dead

“details”
― Anne Frasier, Stay Dead