Out of the Dark Quotes

“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Out of the Dark

“Envision someone else, someone better than you. Stronger. Smarter. Tougher. Then do what that guy would do.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Out of the Dark

“Envision someone else, someone better than you. Stronger. Smarter. Tougher. Then do what that guy would do. “Act like who you want to be,”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Out of the Dark

“Her last date had been months ago, procured through one of the less-gropey dating apps. “Wellesley,” he’d said over pork-belly sliders. “Isn’t that, like, a girls’ college with no men?” “No,” she’d said. “It’s, like, a women’s college with no boys.” She recalled the furrowing of his brow, more confusion than offense. “Oh,” he’d”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Out of the Dark

“DC at night had a particular savage gleam, red taillights piercing through gloom, dingy alleys bookending martini-lounge hustle-bustle. And yet another realm hovered above in an angelic glow, the eye called to uplit white marble monuments, to rounded domes and thrusting peaks, to glowing penthouses floating above streets as dark as puddles. Everything that rose seemed to be mirrored in descent, the reflecting pool and the cool Potomac like portals to an underworld. Wetzel had read somewhere that Hollywood directors liked to hose down streets to make the asphalt sparkle on film. Washington was like that naturally, a black-ice kind of town – lose focus and you’d slip and break your neck.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Out of the Dark

“When you’re a kid,” he said, “time lasts forever. You’re immortal. When your grandparents die, it’s not real. Not yet. Then your parents go, and … well, it’s like there’s no more insurance. You’re next in line. You’re that guy!” He laughed. “The last one standing. The one everyone wants to make sure to see at Christmas, because you never know. You never know. I can see them grieving me even while I’m still here. And there’s a comfort in that. A love. So maybe that’s what you’re giving your father by being here. Even if he doesn’t know it in his brain, he knows it in his cells.” Her throat was dry, and her eyes burned. She folded her hands, staring down at the ridgeline of her knuckles. The man said, “What?” She cleared her throat. “The mourning, it sucks, yeah, but no one tells you…” He kept his gaze steady on her. She forced out the words. “No one tells you how hard it is not to get resentful.” “Accept it,” he said. “If you accept life, you accept all its rich, awful complexities. Because if you think about it, what’s the alternative?” She thought of pork-belly sliders and dude-bros thumbing their phones over dinner and the sweet bullshit promise of demo-targeted advertising. She took the man’s hand, skin draped over bone. “Thank you.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Out of the Dark

“It’s 1-855-2-NOWHERE.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Out of the Dark

“the.nwhr.man@gmail.com.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Out of the Dark

“And now this arctic freeze, the two of them riding ice floes drifting slowly apart. Was this the flip side of intimacy? You get closer and closer until you can no longer discern each other?”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Out of the Dark

“You know the best part of being an adult?” he said. “It teaches you to forgive yourself.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Out of the Dark

“Atlas carries the world on his shoulders,” he said. “And I used to think about how miserable he must be. You know how the Greeks love suffering. But then I realized—he’s not suffering. He’s fortunate to shoulder a responsibility of that magnitude. It’s enough weight to make him useful, to give him self-respect. If he put down his load, he’d be meaningless.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Out of the Dark

“Like her, they’d been raised on YouTube and swipe-right screens. On every billboard and music video, there was the unattainable fantasy, curated personalities, skin smooth and shiny, glammed up and spray-tanned, and she knew it was all fake, a media creation or whatever, but it was still effective, still teasing some high-school not-belonging part of her. That was even more infuriating: to know it was a lie but to want to believe in it anyway. To”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Out of the Dark

“Evan sipped the matcha tea once more. It wasn’t half bad. He wondered at the kind of life that called for a steamed-milk waterfowl decorating one’s hot beverage.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Out of the Dark

“that”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Out of the Dark

“There are no good guys. There are no bad guys. There’s only what needs to be done.”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Out of the Dark

“our philosophy of fostering community while celebrating individual strengths.” Evan leaned over. “Is this really what school is like?”
― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, Out of the Dark

“Crisis management, he’d learned, generally balanced on getting others to focus on a different crisis, one of his choosing. Bait and switch, sleight of hand, a gentle tap to send the news cycle into a different spin.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Out of the Dark

“Her death had been ordered by no less than the president of the United States, and a thing like that tended to make a girl wary.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Out of the Dark

“His pleasures now were simple. Using his skills to help those not merely in need but also worthy. And sipping sparkling water alfresco on a glorious California night.”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Out of the Dark

“koan,”
― Gregg Hurwitz, Out of the Dark