Follow You Home Quotes

“Every dark space felt threatening, as if it contained and concealed something horrifying. My imagination filled in the details that my eyes couldn’t see, not just memories from a hundred horror movies and books, but something deeper in my brain, a line that stretched back thousands of years, fear of the dark woods hard-wired into me.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“This was life, really lived, really experienced, a passage of magic that would flash before our eyes when we died.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“monsters don’t only live in faraway forests. They are just as likely to live next door.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“If I could sleep, could get just one decent night’s rest, I was certain I would feel better, that I would be able to function again.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“PTSD is where your brain remains in psychological shock, unable to shake off or move on from what happened to you.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“I faced down my fears.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“One o’clock was a more civilised time to have lunch, but noon was acceptable.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“We ran all the way into town. We didn’t talk. We didn’t look back.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“Tonight, she wore shorts, because it was hot, not because she enjoyed being stared at.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“She had seen Daniel here earlier. He had come onto the ward, sat beside her bed. As soon as she saw him coming she had shut her eyes, pretending to be asleep. She knew exactly what he would say and she didn’t want to hear it. Seeing him reminded her of why she felt like this.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“Another line of poetry came to her. All angels are terrifying. She smiled to herself. Oh yes, she thought. And I am the most terrifying of all, the Angel of Vengeance. I am Mirela, she whispered, and around her the thirteen dead women whispered Amen back.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“The tarantula sheds her skin once a year, the narrator explained, then seals herself away behind a wall of silk until her new skin has hardened. Only then can she re-emerge and start to feed again.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“There is always a solution that can be found through logic and clear thought.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“Could I have a glass of wine without food?”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“los monstruos no viven solo en bosques lejanos. Es igual de probable que vivan en la puerta de al lado.”
― Mark Edwards, Hasta el fin de tus días

“words”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“over to the car. This was”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“He yelled, making the cat shoot out of the room, and then looked around at the dump where he lived.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“at first I thought my heart had leaped from my body and was lying there, twitching in the dead grass, but I somehow got hold of myself, forced my eyes to focus.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“putrescentputrescentputrescentputrescent”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“Something thumped above me and a woman cried out. I clutched my chest. But it was just my neighbours, fucking noisily again. I staggered across the room, my heart skittering crazily. I picked up my phone and called Laura’s mobile, hanging up after two rings when I remembered what time it was and that Laura was in hospital. She was seeing ghosts and I was imagining phantom photographs. I started to laugh. We really were the perfect couple.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“them. Outside the window: blackness. We were deep in the Hungarian countryside now. I could hardly even imagine what the landscape would look like outside the window. Forests? Plains? I pressed my face against the window. I couldn’t even see any stars. If it wasn’t for the occasional flicker from an isolated building, the train could be hurtling through space. We could be anywhere. We could be at the end of the world. Laura kicked off her boots and flopped down on one of the bunks. I sat opposite her and took my phone out of the front pocket of my backpack. The battery”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“So tell me what happened to you in Romania. You had a bad experience?’ She came back towards me, leaning against the fireplace, the light catching the liquid in her glass. I was sitting on the sofa, looking up at her.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“And the man we’re looking for—he’s just a monster.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“He found a small, cheap room in a Breva hotel that smelled of cabbage and cabbage-induced farts”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“Here's my advice: She wants to travel first class, pay for first class.”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“monsters don’t only live in faraway forests. They are just as likely to live next door.   But please, if you find yourself in a train carriage far from home, whatever you do, don’t fall asleep. And if you ever happen upon a creepy house in a dark forest, take my advice.   Run.   Thanks”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“I approached the desk. ‘Yes, I need to talk to someone about the death of”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“markcity@me.com;”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home

“snarling”
― Mark Edwards, Follow You Home