Before You Wake Quotes

“Our entire existence was contingent on forgetting horror. Maybe the repeated infractions of our species were a direct result of us not remembering the horrors of our past infractions.”
― Adam Nevill, Before You Wake: Three Horrors

“The more he thought about potential accidents, the more Ray also wondered why more vehicles out there were not suddenly crashing. Or why the entire network of roads did not become one long sequence of traffic accidents. How did it all just keep going with such fallible, easily distracted creatures behind the wheels?”
― Adam Nevill, Before You Wake: Three Horrors

“Life is full of repetition,’ the man eventually said. ‘Same bad things keep happening.”
― Adam Nevill, Before You Wake: Three Horrors

“And for good or ill, he knew that houses were also similar to people. Just as you never really knew what was going on behind a face, you also had no idea what a home really looked like behind the façade.”
― Adam Nevill, Before You Wake: Three Horrors

“The ability to forget was a kind of advance braking system of the mind.”
― Adam Nevill, Before You Wake: Three Horrors

“We look away from the dirty, wilting flowers tied to metal railings on that corner that you have to slow down for (if you know the road). In time, we’ll even begin to forget how we felt at the funeral of a child.”
― Adam Nevill, Before You Wake: Three Horrors