The Locked-Away Life Quotes

“These thoughts were the very reason she was climbing this hill. To be rid of thinking, of worrying, of feeling like she could have done more. How many years did it take to comprehend life? Almost all of them, Esther felt despairingly, and yet she was no closer to understanding it”
― Drew Davies, The Locked-Away Life

“Bruno wished he was more capable of lying, but when he was keeping such a deep secret about himself hidden, the truth almost rose out of him by itself, like a counterweight”
― Drew Davies, The Locked-Away Life

“And when I ask anyone, where has everything gone in the world, they tell me - On-Line. It's some magical place they created when I wasn't looking. The promised land. No one explained the ramifications until it was too late. Or maybe they did, and I wasn't listening”
― Drew Davies, The Locked-Away Life

“One always thinks of oneself as worldly and wise, until you age and get worldlier and wiser”
― Drew Davies, The Locked-Away Life

“Life should not be dampened with regret but nourished with hopes and dreams”
― Drew Davies, The Locked-Away Life

“You've come to the threadbare end of your tattered life, and you're hoping it affords you a vantage, but you've missed the lesson completely. Life is not about morals, and principles. It's about evolution. And you are a dinosaur staring down an approaching meteorite”
― Drew Davies, The Locked-Away Life

“Bruno chewed his food, not hugely paying attention to the others. He'd let Dr Allan take the power, get inside his mind - it was a horribly invasive feeling he'd never experienced before; even the memory made him shudder involuntarily. No, this time Bruno would act faster”
― Drew Davies, The Locked-Away Life

“If you think too positively about something, I don't know, it's like something worse might happen. You jinx it”
― Drew Davies, The Locked-Away Life

“How little time there was when we were only ever renting these bodies”
― Drew Davies, The Locked-Away Life