Darkness Falls Quotes

“But dead people leave a space. It’s not a physical space. It’s a part of our life that remains in a vacuum. And the smallest thing can let the air rush into that vacuum, filling it with life, memories and feelings, as if the person has never been gone.”
― Paul Teague, Darkness Falls

“I love my family, but sometimes, in the middle of the night when the rest of the world is asleep, there is a silence I could inhabit forever.”
― Paul Teague, Darkness Falls

“It had taken only a couple of hundred years of industrial activity for humans to destroy the planet. As it would turn out, their consumption of Earth’s resources had proven as foolhardy as thinking that you could sail off the edge of the Earth or that the Earth is the centre of the universe. Theories that are easily debunked when you have the tools and knowledge to disprove them. Hilarious when viewed with the benefit of hindsight. So it would be with man’s industrial phase on Earth. In centuries to come, scholars would laugh at how men once thought they could endlessly plunder the Earth’s resources with impunity. How could they ever have thought that? they would cry in astonishment.”
― Paul Teague, Darkness Falls

“it felt great, it made me feel, for want of a better word, complete. This was how I was supposed to feel all of the time. I was sharper, more awake and alert than since I could remember.”
― Paul Teague, Darkness Falls

“It’s in moments of extreme stress that we find out who we really are. In the comfort of an office or a classroom, we’re happy to discuss what we might or might not do in certain hypothetical situations. But until you face that fear, that crisis, that emergency situation, you never know exactly how you’ll behave. Heroes and cowards are defined in a split second.”
― Paul Teague, Darkness Falls

“Great question!’ She knew she’d won this exchange by engaging my curiosity. Have you ever noticed how brilliant you feel when someone says that? It happened to me at school a lot. I’d put my hand up, ask something obvious – like I was paying full attention – and the teacher would enthusiastically reply with a ‘Great question!’ Now, don’t get me wrong, I knew it wasn’t really a great question. It was a diversionary technique I’d mastered many years ago. Be proactive with questions that you control, that way the teacher will see that you’ve participated in class. And when it comes to them asking questions over which you have no control, they’ll pass you by. After all, you’ve already contributed, diligent student that you are.”
― Paul Teague, Darkness Falls

“Ordinary people for an extraordinary job. The future of humanity no less. The problem with high achievers is that they tend to be too good. Brilliant – but at only one thing. They spend hours, days, months and years honing their skills, ridiculous amounts of time mastering every element of their profession and then they become masters. But in becoming exemplary at one thing, they lose their focus and skills in other areas. And ordinary people were exactly what he needed right now, for this particular mission.”
― Paul Teague, Darkness Falls

“siren started to sound. She dismissed it at first, thinking it was part of the tourist experience at the bunker. It was odd. Even though that siren wail had been used since the second world war, then adapted for the cold war, there was still nothing that could get anywhere close to it when it came to the sound of grim portent. You couldn’t replace it with a digital version, for instance – there was nothing that could assume anywhere near its gravity and sense of impending crisis.”
― Paul Teague, Darkness Falls

“It would be like one of those photofits that you see on the TV, where they age people who have gone missing. You take a look at the photofit and you can kind of recognize the original person in there. But if you saw them in a crowded place, would you really be able to spot them?”
― Paul Teague, Darkness Falls

“Hospitals always meant bad news to me. Of course, in most cases they’re places of healing. People who have the most terrible illnesses and problems enter those buildings and leave them cured or with their suffering eased.”
― Paul Teague, Darkness Falls

“But dead people leave a space. It’s not a physical space. It’s a part of our life that remains in a vacuum. And the smallest thing can let the air rush into that vacuum, filling it with life, memories and feelings, as if the person had never been gone.”
― Paul Teague, Darkness Falls