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Stuart Turton QUOTES

Stuart Turton QUOTES

1 " ...bars can't build better men and misery can only break what goodness remains. "

― Stuart Turton , The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

2 " Nothing like a mask to reveal somebody's true nature. "

― Stuart Turton , The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

3 " On a normal day, these people would be buying from the bakers, tailors, cordwainers, binders and candlemakers lining the boulevard. They’d be smiling and laughing, grumbling about the infernal heat, but manacle a man and offer him up to torment, and even the meekest soul surrendered itself to the devil. "

― Stuart Turton , The Devil and the Dark Water

4 " Tomorrow, I'll see his face in the mirror, and, somehow, I"ll have to make it mine. To do that, I need to start again, free of the past, free of him and the mistakes he made.
Instead of the impossible, I'll need only to concern myself with the ordinary. The luxury of waking up in the same bed.... The luxury of sunshine. The luxury of honesty. The luxury of living a life...
Tomorrow can be whatever I want it to be, which means for the first time in decades, I can look forward to it. Instead of being something to fear, it can be a promise I make myself. A chance to be braver or kinder, to make what was wrong right. To be better than I am today.
Every day after this one is a gift.
I just have to keep walking until I get there. "

― Stuart Turton , The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

5 " Men were dangerous. They were fickle of mood, liable to lash out when disappointed, and they were frequently disappointed - most often by their own shortcomings, though only a fool would tell them as much. "

― Stuart Turton , The Devil and the Dark Water

6 " People didn’t matter to the Company. They were commodities like everything else: free to produce and cheap to replace. Only what they dug out of the ground had value. "

― Stuart Turton , The Devil and the Dark Water

7 " People gave the heavens a voice, so they had something to ask for: a better harvest, a healthy child or a milder winter. God was hope, and mankind needed hope the way it needed warmth, food and ale.
But with hope came disappointment.
The downtrodden yearned for stories to explain their misfortunes, though what they really wanted was somebody to blame for their misery. It was impossible to set fire to the blight that had ruined your crops, but a blight was easily summoned by a witch, at which point any poor woman would do. "

― Stuart Turton , The Devil and the Dark Water

8 " How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home? "

― Stuart Turton , The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

9 " If this isn’t hell, the devil is surely taking notes. "

― Stuart Turton , The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

10 " Too little information and you're blind, too much and you're blinded. "

― Stuart Turton , The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

11 " We are never more ourselves than when we think people aren’t watching. "

― Stuart Turton , The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

12 " Can’t you see, these masks we wear betray us. They reveal us. "

― Stuart Turton , The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

13 " So many memories and secrets, so many burdens. Every life has such weight. I don’t know how anybody carries even one. "

― Stuart Turton , The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

14 " Anger’s solid, it has weight. You can beat your fists against it. Pity’s a fog to become lost within. "

― Stuart Turton , The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

15 " Life doesn’t always leave you a choice in how you live it. "

― Stuart Turton , The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

16 " The future isn’t a warning my friend, it’s a promise, and it won’t be broken by us. That’s the nature of the trap we’re caught in. "

― Stuart Turton , The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

17 " What use is rearranging the furniture if you burn the house down doing it? "

― Stuart Turton , The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

18 " How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home? This lost, I decide. Precisely this lost. "

― Stuart Turton , The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

19 " One by one I knit these new memories together until I’ve got five minutes of past to wrap myself in. "

― Stuart Turton , The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

20 " If this is hell, then it's one of our making. "

― Stuart Turton , The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle