Little Deaths Quotes

“but when tragedy strikes, there’s a tendency to assume that someone is different. Special. That there’s something about them that makes them the kind of person bad things happen to. Because the alternative—that bad things can happen to anyone, at any time—is unthinkable. He”
― Emma Flint, Little Deaths

“He said her name out loud and it tasted like chocolate on his lips. Chocolate with something sharp and hot beneath, like a dessert with a good slug of brandy. He imagined his own name on her lips. He saw her neat white teeth flash as she formed the long-ee sound, and then heard the noise of her tongue tuck in against the roof of her mouth. Like the smallest, softest kiss.”
― Emma Flint, Little Deaths

“The date is my evidence.” He took a final piece of his paper from his pocket and unfolded it. It was an obituary column, dated September twenty-eighth, nineteen fifty-seven. “I found this in the library files as well.” Horowitz stared at it, then turned his head away. “I don’t need to see that. I wrote the damn thing.” He”
― Emma Flint, Little Deaths

“You testified, in court, that you gave the interview tapes to Devlin.”
― Emma Flint, Little Deaths