Hell and Gone Quotes

“The hotter Lawrence got, the more explosively he blew, the colder Everett felt himself go. He could be ice staring down Lawrence’s fire.”
― Tal Bauer, Hell and Gone

“How did you come back? I’m so far gone—”
“You’re not.” Lawrence kissed his forehead, the tip of his nose. “You just gotta turn around. That’s all it is. Turn around. Time moves in one direction, but you’re tryin’ to fight it and keep runnin’ away from the present. You’re a fish swimmin’ upstream, but you gotta turn back. You’re still you, Everett. You’re just afraid of what you’ll see when you look at yourself.”
“And what will I see?”
Lawrence kissed him, slowly. “Yourself. You’ll see yourself and your life. Every man has to face himself and what he’s done. Every man makes a choice in his life: do you keep on goin’ with what you’re doin’? Or do you change? Some men give up. You ain’t a quitter. Stop wastin’ your life.”
― Tal Bauer, Hell and Gone

“There were canyons between those vowels, lingering spaces where Lawrence’s voice lengthened and spread like warm honey.”
― Tal Bauer, Hell and Gone