The Last Thing to Burn Quotes

“This is a moment for myself. A moment I own.”
― Will Dean, The Last Thing to Burn

“What saves me is people. Strangers. Old women. Shopkeepers. Young lovers and milkmen doing their rounds and window cleaners with ladders fixed on top of their vans. Individuals oblivious to one another and yet, in a way, they act like insurance. An invisible web. Nothing too bad will happen on the street of a small town like this because people are everywhere. If something heinous occurs, then it's likely to be short-lived. Terrible acts are more difficult to conceal in a place like this. Someone will eventually step in or call the police. Horrors can still take place, but people look after people even though they might never think of it that way.”
― Will Dean, The Last Thing to Burn

“My skin is ten times thicker than before and I’m hiding inside my own skeleton.”
― Will Dean, The Last Thing to Burn

“will overtake my ankle pain. Will the two run concurrently or will one eclipse the other?”
― Will Dean, The Last Thing to Burn

“I should have chosen the moment before the arrival of my children, for since then I’ve lost the option of dying. The sharp smell of their sun-baked hair, the smell of sweat on their backs when they wake from a nightmare, the dusty smell of their hands when they leave a classroom, meant that I had to live, to be dazzled by the shadow of their eyelashes, moved by a snowflake, bowled over by a tear on their cheek.”
― Will Dean, The Last Thing to Burn