Come Closer Quotes

“WE COULD devote our lives to making sense of the odd, the inexplicable, the coincidental. But most of us don’t, and I didn’t either.”
― Sara Gran, Come Closer

“Instead I walked towards the man, meeting him halfway. “Just miss a train?” I heard myself ask. He shrugged. I could not believe I was engaging this man in conversation. He was disgusting up close, with mottled, pitted skin and a shaggy grown out haircut. “I hate that,” I said. “Especially at night. Especially at night when you’re waiting for a train and there’s someone there. And you never know. I mean, in the city you just never know who you’re dealing with. They might have a knife, or a gun, or whatever. They might, I don’t know, be the kind of person who hates men who hang out in train stations, waiting for women. She might be the kind of person who takes men like that and rips them limb from fucking limb with her bare hands.” The man left the station without a word, and the train took me home safe and sound.”
― Sara Gran, Come Closer

“What we think is impossible happens all the time.”
― Sara Gran, Come Closer

“And that’s all I’ve ever wanted, really: someone to love me, and never leave me alone.”
― Sara Gran, Come Closer

“Possession by K. L. Walker,”
― Sara Gran, Come Closer: A Novel

“I’m sorry about dinner,” he called, still in the bedroom. “I TOLD YOU I WAS SORRY!” “You’re always sorry!” I yelled back. “You and your FUCKING APOLOGIES!”
― Sara Gran, Come Closer

“He had imagined a person was as sleek and neat on the inside as the outside. He couldn't stand the mess, the chaos, the blood.”
― Sara Gran, Come Closer

“A therapist! I loved the idea. I wasn’t possessed. I was insane!”
― Sara Gran, Come Closer

“Fields & Carmine closed the office for the rest of the week and on Sunday we all cried at his funeral. Then on Monday we all went back to work and settled back into a new routine, a routine where one of our coworkers was dead, and that was the end of James Cronin.”
― Sara Gran, Come Closer

“We could devote our lives to making sense of the odd, the inexplicable, the coincidental, but most of us don’t. And neither did I.”
― Sara Gran, Come Closer

“And then in one great leap he jumped up the two steps and attacked. With his front paws, as strong as human hands, he pushed me against the wall, ignoring my horrified screams, licked me right on my mouth and tried to seduce me.”
― Sara Gran, Come Closer

“I had been so stupid as to think I had any understanding of the universe at all.”
― Sara Gran, Come Closer

“Why is it no one’s job is to protect me from myself?”
― Sara Gran, Come Closer

“I wasn’t possessed—I was insane!”
― Sara Gran, Come Closer

“It wasn’t until months later that I would look back and realize that, most likely, I had killed the magazine dealer myself.”
― Sara Gran, Come Closer

“In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project.”
― Sara Gran, Come Closer