Impostor Quotes

“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”
― L.J. Ross, Impostor

“Heads turned as Claire Kelly’s husband began his slow, painful journey down the central aisle, flanked by five other men who held her coffin aloft. When Gregory caught sight of the man’s face as he gripped the edges of the polished wood, he saw only raw, naked grief; the kind that could rarely be feigned. Flowers fell as the coffin travelled onward and, while the townsfolk sent up prayers for the man and his child, one of their number scanned the pews, seeking another face. The next face. Aideen.”
― L.J. Ross, Impostor

“morning and he lived to be ninety-one.” Aideen pursed her lips. “That’s as maybe,” she said, obliquely. “But the doctor—”
― L.J. Ross, Impostor

“He was something apart; an island inhabited by one, with an occasional visitor permitted very rarely to share his solitary life. He did not belong.”
― L.J. Ross, Impostor

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery”
― L.J. Ross, Impostor