A Density of Souls Quotes

“I think you write because it’s easier than talking,”
― Christopher Rice, A Density of Souls

“Fear cannot touch me . . .” Before she closed her eyes, Meredith saw Greg look nervously from Stephen to Brandon. “It can only taunt me, it cannot take me, just tell me where to go . . .” She opened her eyes slightly. Greg had taken Brandon’s hand. She shut her eyes by the time Brandon gripped hers. “I can either follow, or stay in my bed . . .” Meredith knew the circle was complete. While she didn’t quite know what it meant for them to hold hands like this, she knew that Stephen’s voice seemed louder than the growls of the angry storm overhead. “I can hold on to the things that I know . . .” Another roll of thunder passed. Meredith felt it in her chest. Stephen paused to let it fade before he continued. “The dead stay dead, they cannot walk. The shadows are darkness. And darkness can’t talk.” No one”
― Christopher Rice, A Density of Souls

“He told her about what he called the light in the darkness. Life, according to Stephen, was not a journey out of darkness into light. In fact, darkness and light were two arbitrary categories applied to the human spirit in a vain hope that it, too, with all its fleshy influences, would be as orderly as the rise and fall of the sun. The light in the darkness, as Stephen explained it, did not chase away the shadows of fear and regret: It merely illuminated the fears worth fighting. It lit the paths dictated by fate and choice, rather than casting a celestial glow on the way to a better and more perfect world.”
― Christopher Rice, A Density of Souls

“You told me about what you called the light in the darkness. About how life was neither good nor bad, but a combination of both and occasionally good things pop up in the middle of tragedy, but they still don’t make tragedy go away. They can’t protect you. They’re just light. But what you didn’t say is that sometimes, certain people can be a light in the darkness. There are some people in this world who are worth saving when other people decide they shine the wrong kind of light on the wrong”
― Christopher Rice, A Density of Souls

“Come on . . .” Stephen called back over his shoulder.”
― Christopher Rice, A Density of Souls

“The light in the darkness, as Stephen explained it, did not chase away the shadows of fear and regret: It merely illuminated the fears worth fighting. It lit the paths dictated by fate and choice, rather than casting a celestial glow on the way to a better and more perfect world. Although”
― Christopher Rice, A Density of Souls

“She did not feel she could be a writer because she lacked the courage to let anyone read her words. When”
― Christopher Rice, A Density of Souls

“You never hate someone that much unless you’re afraid of him.”
― Christopher Rice, A Density of Souls

“Why do these people like pain so much?”
― Christopher Rice, A Density of Souls

“kind of things. You have been and will always be my light in the darkness. I love you, Meredith.”
― Christopher Rice, A Density of Souls

“wafting through the open door of a brightly lit office down the musty, darkened corridor of the backstage.”
― Christopher Rice, A Density of Souls

“Maybe Jeff Haugh wouldn’t speak to him in school that day. But it wouldn’t matter. Stephen stared out over his ice-shrouded neighborhood and realized that what had happened the previous night was inviolable; it could not be taken from him the way his childhood had been. Jeff Haugh’s arms and lips had held him, and no words or actions could undo that. Jeff Haugh. Stephen rolled the name back and forth in his head. He found himself unable to think of him as just Jeff. His full name seemed more appropriate. With Jeff Haugh in his history, Stephen would always be part of something beyond his window. He”
― Christopher Rice, A Density of Souls