No One Gets Out Alive Quotes

“And in the darkest places only kindness matters.”
― Adam Nevill, No One Gets Out Alive

“The words thumped deep and low, rhythmically, like a little drum in a wooden box, beaten by unseen hands in a black room that opened doors onto another place you could not see the end of.”
― Adam Nevill, No One Gets Out Alive

“Better not look, eh? When Fergal loses it he don’t fuck around, like.”
― Adam Nevill, No One Gets Out Alive

“his horrified eyes were too large for his thin face, like hard-boiled eggs painted by a disturbed child.”
― Adam Nevill, No One Gets Out Alive

“But how is it done? How is control of your life possible when you have no money and no prospect of getting more than a little to survive on? To exist on was closer to the truth because that was what you were doing. Existing, not living. A familiar suspicion revived itself that she hadn't even started in life and was somehow outside it still, looking in, drifting or being blown about its fringes while being trapped in places where anything could happen to her.”
― Adam Nevill, No One Gets Out Alive

“And wherever we may go, or find ourselves, I believe we remain the same people.”
― Adam Nevill, No One Gets Out Alive

“Regret: the most corrosive horror.”
― Adam Nevill, No One Gets Out Alive

“They had made everything she took for granted redundant, like cooperation and manners and civility and privacy and laws. Silly things that pinged out easily like old light bulbs.”
― Adam Nevill, No One Gets Out Alive

“Oh. Yes. You live too, yes?”
Stephanie frowned in bewilderment.
“Sorry, my English not so good.”
The addendum to Margaret’s question enabled Stephanie to understand she was being asked whether she lived in the building and not if she were alive. Though neither question, she decided, was inappropriate at 82 Edgehill Road.”
― Adam Nevill, No One Gets Out Alive

“They are coming! Yes! And they will take me. But I swear you will not live. You will not leave this house alive. I swear I will come for you. Both of you. You will know me, you bastards! You will know me in this dark. No one gets out alive! No one!”
― Adam Nevill, No One Gets Out Alive