Dark Objects Quotes

“Anger may burn brightly but it fades eventually, whereas grief burns black and is never extinguished.”
― Simon Toyne, Dark Objects

“He’s not a fan of open-plan offices either, modern panopticons that make everyone feel like they are being watched all the time. Jeremy Bentham had developed the idea in the eighteenth century as a type of architecture suited to prisons, insane asylums, and any other institution where surveillance was necessary. The basic idea was that people who felt they were constantly being watched would self-police and be more productive as a result. Now the whole world is a panopticon, which says all you need to know about modern society.”
― Simon Toyne, Dark Objects

“The lift is glass, as is most of the interior of this fishbowl of a building, and Rees watches the floors flash past, the business of government passing through the open-plan offices like food through the gut of some giant transparent creature, often with similar end results.”
― Simon Toyne, Dark Objects

“It’s all part of the shitty deal you get as a mother, a duty to be suspicious and watchful over the person you love most in the world.”
― Simon Toyne, Dark Objects

“Piles of clothes spill out of half-open drawers and collect on the floor in drifts, what Laughton sometimes refers to as the “freshly burgled look.”
― Simon Toyne, Dark Objects