52 Sleepless Nights Quotes

“I saw the blood leaking out from Mom’s closed door after I left the bathroom. I had to stay with my grandmother for a week after that. There wasn’t any blood when I got home, and I haven’t seen Dad since. I still don’t know if the monster that night. When I told the story to some friends at school, they said Raleigha must have killed him. My friends were all terrified of monsters after that, but that’s just because they didn’t understand.”
― Tobias Wade, 52 Sleepless Nights

“That must be nice—to feel loved and wanted, or even to have someone notice whether or not I was there at all. The fact is that I’m”
― Tobias Wade, 52 Sleepless Nights

“The primary function of your senses is to stop yourself from experiencing the universe, whose infinite information would otherwise overwhelm and madden you. Eyes that once simplified the world into finite wavelengths of color closed for the last time, and then I saw everything. Ears once deaf to cosmic music sung by the birth of stars, the communal heartbeat of the human race, and the haunting pop of each collapsing universe now concealed them no longer.”
― Tobias Wade, 52 Sleepless Nights

“Jessica, the kind of girl who makes smart men do stupid things, asked me as we parked.”
― Tobias Wade, 52 Sleepless Nights