The Library of the Dead Quotes

“We're all what we are because of circumstances larger than we are.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“Doing something when it is hard, because it is the right thing to do, matters more than doing it when it's easy. The world needs light now more than ever.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“The prison of the mind is greater than my real actual prison.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“Can't afford to put myself in some sort of ideological straightjacket. That's for losers.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“The thing about the dead is you can never bring them back. Doesn’t matter how much you love them. Never mind how much money they had or what good they did in this world. Doesn’t matter how much you pray or which god you turn to. It’s set in stone. One shot is all any of us ever get, and I’ve seen enough regrets from beyond to know how true that is.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“There’s a world of a difference between reading and hearing. I mean, you extract the same juice out of the fruit of knowledge – whether it’s coming off pod or page. But with audio, I like hearing the sound of someone else’s voice. I like having a guide with me through the maze. And I can also do other things while I listen, whereas when I read, that’s it. There’s no multitasking there and I ain’t got no time for that.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“We are mind, heart and hand. Through these our will is made manifest in the world. We shape it by touching it.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“I get it right away. Those guys come in guns blazing, Jesus the shit out of everything, maybe even spray a bit of holy water here and there, chant some jazz from the Book of Occasional Services and shoot off. It's hit or miss with them: sometimes it works, sometimes it don't. But if there's something strange in your postcode, who you gonna call?”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“Something smells off in the barns. Even in this city of olfactory tragedy, this scent’s more pungent and desperate than anything I’ve encountered before.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“One shot is all any of us ever get, and I’ve seen enough regrets from beyond to know how true that is.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“Even in death, a mother’s love cannot die. There are bonds that bind us tighter than time and matter and this is one of them. It’s elemental, fundamental, woven into the fabric not only of the universe, but of existence itself.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“Es ist wichtiger, etwas nur deswegen zu tun, weil es richtig ist, auch wenn es schwerer fällt, als den einfachen Weg zu gehen.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“Das Witzige ist, je mehr ich lerne, desto mehr habe ich das Gefühl, dass ich so gut wie nichts weiß.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“Collaborators like him deserve to be strung up in a public square; because evil doesn't happen because good men do nothing. It happens because they get sucked in, they participate. There are no neutral observers in this world.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“The only currency more powerful than money in this world is the violence of man.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“Eliminating what is not true is just as important as knowing what is true.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“I guess the world always looks more beautiful through scope. But if you use a microscope, you see things how they really are - up close and personal - and what you get is much scarier.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“Don't make the same mistake I made a long time ago and lose yourself in the soulless pursuit of money, child. It's in the most trying times, when we ourselves have nothing, that we mustn't forget there are higher virtues like compassion, kindness and solidarity. Doing something when it's hard, because it is the right thing to do, matters more than doing it when it's easy. The world needs light now more than ever.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“Don’t make the same mistake I made a long time ago and lose yourself in the soulless pursuit of money, child. It’s in the most trying times, when we ourselves have nothing, that we mustn’t forget there are higher virtues like compassion, kindness and solidarity. Doing something when it is hard, because it is the right thing to do, matters more than doing it when it’s easy. The world needs light now more than ever.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“It’s in the most trying times, when we ourselves have nothing, that we mustn’t forget there are higher virtues like compassion, kindness and solidarity. Doing something when it is hard, because it is the right thing to do, matters more than doing it when it’s easy.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“Before I can grab the handles, Priya’s off. I panic and go after her. The wheelchair clanks down the stairs, gaining speed. Her head bobs from side to side. The chair’s bouncing and clattering, making quite the racket. And even though I’m taking two steps at a time, I can’t keep up with it. She’s definitely gonna fall and hurt herself, while I stand by like a bloody lemon. ‘Oh my God,’ I cry. The noise of the wheels as they hit the stairs is insane, then it ends with a bang when Priya reaches the floor below. I’m a few seconds behind, experiencing a heart attack. Priya swivels her chair, which is still moving away from me, and turns just as I land on the floor. ‘Look at your face,’ she says, laughing, and slaps her thighs, tears rolling down her cheeks. I stop to catch my breath. My heart’s pounding in my ribcage. I bend over and touch my knees. Total fuckery this.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“to alarm her with the terrors I hear”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“I haven’t had too many customers from here, though. The folks I deal with tend to be the ones in newer cemeteries or unconsecrated council ground. There, you get a turnover of occupants because the plots are rented. Final resting place aint so final, it seems.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“That’s the cool thing about Gran. She reads you and doesn’t push you too hard if there’s stuff you wanna keep to yourself. She’ll prod, then back off, until you’re good and ready to come to her yourself.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“It like, I’ve come into contact with people linked to this whole applesauce and I’ve got nothing out of it.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“They called it Petty France, a corruption of Petite France, and then the locals got tired of all the pretentiousness and so Little France it became. Can't see why they didn't go for Wee France instead, but who cares? There's a long history of the French coming over here doing Frenchy things too; there was that whole Catholic-Protestant malarkey where the Royal Infirmary is, and I park up in an empty bay But anyway, that's near A&E.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“I’m almost surprised I can do that. Just walk out at will. Go where I wanna go. That’s real magic of ice ever seen any.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“Sometimes the guys I listen to say contradictory things and I have to choose for myself who's right and who's wrong. Other times they're both right and it makes no sense to pick one over the other, so you just have to be pragmatic: pick what works now and discard it for something else when the time comes. That's how I like to operate. Can't afford to put myself in some sort of ideological straitjacket. That's for losers. I get a ping back from Priya saying be careful and not to make a move until she gets back. I ask her how the conference is going, and she says it's a posh wank. Figures. Really shouldn't cycle and text at the same time. I don't need Uncle Tzu to tell me that's dumb.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“The veiled implication that my little sister might end up just like me if I don’t do something grates on me. Blunt truths don’t cut cleanly, I guess.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“Most people don’t know what this feels like. This gift, thus curse, to see what shouldn’t be seen. Some days I find myself asking if it ain’t all just an illusion and I’m really a straight-up loony.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead