The Bruise-Black Sky Quotes

“Do you know, of all the dumb things you’ve ever said over all the years I’ve known you, and trust me, you have said more than your fair share, that is the most dumbest thing I’ve ever heard you utter.”
“Most dumbest is ungrammatical. Miles Toogood would be turning in his grave if he were dead.”
“I rest my case.”
― John Wiltshire, The Bruise-Black Sky

“Disbelievingly, Ben saw that they were canopied by a mass of stars, the Milky Way spiralling above them in the clear summer sky. Nikolas was kissing slowly around Ben’s ear and down his neck in time to their slow steps.
In all the years he’d known Nikolas and all the things they’d done together, Ben wondered if this moment was the one he’d remember at the final count of days. It was an occasion for declarations of something, proposals perhaps…A time to say...”
― John Wiltshire, The Bruise-Black Sky

“I only left you because I love you. I’m so fucking dumb.”
“And I don’t tell you things because I love you, and then I don’t tell you I love you either. So I’m even more—fucking dumb—as you so eloquently say.”
― John Wiltshire, The Bruise-Black Sky

“Ben actually had no intention of dancing at the ball. That, as far as he was concerned, was for pussies, a judgement he also gave to art, classical music, black and white films, and any books without serial killers, or explosions, or zombies.”
― John Wiltshire, The Bruise-Black Sky

“What Ben Rider-Mikkelsen didn’t know couldn’t hurt him.
Which neatly answered the question he’d posed earlier.
No, he wouldn’t tell Ben the other things about his life that Ben would probably find…upsetting.
They weren’t relevant to them.”
― John Wiltshire, The Bruise-Black Sky