Where the Dead Walk Quotes

“Dahl had already informed them the house's diesel generator was out of action, so they had brought their own portable generator, which was just as well, because without it the hilltop would have been darker than Batman's armpit.”
― John Bowen, Where the Dead Walk

“You have to accept that everything is borrowed, because whether it's the living obsessed with making contact with the spirits of loved ones they've lost, or spirits unwilling to let go of the living, refusing to cross over to wherever it is our essence ultimately goes, it becomes a distraction from the real business of living, looking and moving forward.”
― John Bowen, Where the Dead Walk

“It is, but there's more than one definition of family. I would argue people can forge bonds far stronger than blood. Shared beliefs, shared experiences, loyalty, obligation, duty and love… These things bind people powerfully too.”
― John Bowen, Where the Dead Walk

“To say he was growing to really dislike the man was a bit like saying slugs weren’t big fans of salt.”
― John Bowen, Where the Dead Walk

“Death is sad, but to those closest to the deceased it is greater than that, it is a catastrophe, an off-the-Richter-scale, ground-shaking earthquake, a gale force fuck hurricane, a three-story-high rolling tsunami that knocks you flat, sweeps you away and strips you bare.”
― John Bowen, Where the Dead Walk

“Circumstances change, and with it often one's perspective follows suit. Carefully,”
― John Bowen, Where the Dead Walk

“Circumstances change, and with it often one's perspective follows suit.”
― John Bowen, Where the Dead Walk

“We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows?"   - David Eagleman”
― John Bowen, Where the Dead Walk

“It was all so ordered, so tidy, almost as if her dad's intruder was the world's only chronically afflicted OCD burglar.”
― John Bowen, Where the Dead Walk

“It's not like I planned to have a heart attack, you know? I wasn't thinking to myself, 'Hmm, you know what James? Today seems like the perfect afternoon for a myocardial infarction.”
― John Bowen, Where the Dead Walk