Dead Voices Quotes

“I believe in memory. I believe in remembering someone you love so well that it becomes kind of like a ghost. You remember someone so hard that it feels like they're in the next room, just around the corner, that they could walk in any minute.”
― Katherine Arden, Dead Voices

“It will be dark in a few hours. Ghosts are stronger in the dark.”
― Katherine Arden, Dead Voices

“Wiser and greater men than you have tried outsmarting me, as you put it. They are dead now.” “Well,” said Coco very coldly, “that’s too bad for them. But I’m a girl, and I bet I can beat you at chess.”
― Katherine Arden, Dead Voices

“got this cold this fast?”
― Katherine Arden, Dead Voices

“it”
― Katherine Arden, Dead Voices

“Then Ollie tucked the watch under her pillow, and they all fell asleep to the quiet of a windless winter night, and Mr. Adler and Coco’s mom playing music very softly downstairs.”
― Katherine Arden, Dead Voices

“...It doesn't feel right. Dead people--they're gone. We aren't meant to talk to them." Brian, Coco remembered, was Catholic. It came out at odd moments.”
― Katherine Arden, Dead Voices

“Ghosts like it when you’re afraid. It means you acknowledge them.”
― Katherine Arden, Dead Voices

“This isn’t a hockey game; it isn’t a duel in the fantasy books you like to read. You can’t just be the fastest, the strongest, and the bravest and win. We have to make a plan.”
― Katherine Arden, Dead Voices

“For she beat me once. And I do not like to lose.” He”
― Katherine Arden, Dead Voices

“For she beat me once. And I do not like to lose.” He gave her a flicker of a smile. She really hated that smile. Behind her, Brian had stopped shouting and thumping on the mirror. There was the swish of his feet in socks on the floor as he came up beside Coco. A sideways glance showed her the shine of furious tears on Brian’s face.”
― Katherine Arden, Dead Voices

“What’s a face?” remarked Seth. “Just another kind of deception.”
― Katherine Arden, Dead Voices

“say, when you’re scared, it means you’re thinking of the future. You’re thinking of what might happen. If you’re doing something risky, you can’t think of the future. You must only think of now. And if you only think of now, then you won’t be scared. But, little Ollie had said, I don’t know how to only think of now. Breathe, her mother had said. Breathing is what you’re doing right now. So breathe. Think of that and nothing else.”
― Katherine Arden, Dead Voices

“restored to the lodge, storm over, the watch on your wrist, your friends with you, all safe and sound. It won’t happen. But that is the prize. In the meantime, I can be generous. You may have one minute to talk to your friends. Say goodbye and all. Convince them not to help you, lest they be trapped there with you. Then—let the game begin.” His smile was wide and joyous, the way a wolf grins, pouncing. With a neat dramatic gesture, he fastened Ollie’s watch to his own wrist. “May the best of us win.”
― Katherine Arden, Dead Voices

“Mr. Voland, Ollie wanted to say. Help me. But she didn’t say it. Something about his slow, satisfied smile choked the words back down her throat. Instead she said, “Where am I?” “Behind the mirror,” he said. He was still smiling gently.”
― Katherine Arden, Dead Voices

“Perhaps only to frighten us. Weaken us. Ghosts like it when you’re afraid. It means you acknowledge them.”
― Katherine Arden, Dead Voices

“When you’re scared, it means you’re thinking of the future. You’re thinking of what might happen. If you’re doing something risky, you can’t think of the future. You must only think of now. And if you only think of now, then you won’t be scared.”
― Katherine Arden, Dead Voices

“Where was the fun of playing a game when one side had no way to win?”
― Katherine Arden, Dead Voices

“More than one thing can open a door between worlds, or hold one open.”
― Katherine Arden, Dead Voices