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101 " Oh. Yes. You live too, yes?”Stephanie frowned in bewilderment.“Sorry, my English not so good.”The addendum to Margaret’s question enabled Stephanie to understand she was being asked whether she lived in the building and not if she were alive. Though neither question, she decided, was inappropriate at 82 Edgehill Road. "
― Adam Nevill , No One Gets Out Alive
102 " They had made everything she took for granted redundant, like cooperation and manners and civility and privacy and laws. Silly things that pinged out easily like old light bulbs. "
103 " something that narrowed around them; while looking for the light and space of an open sky they were actually descending into an environment that was only getting darker and more disorientating, step by step. "
― Adam Nevill , The Ritual
104 " Regret: the most corrosive horror. "
105 " the forest canopy left an incremental impression of going deeper inside something that narrowed around them; while looking for the light and space of an open sky they were actually descending into an environment that was only getting darker and more disorientating, step by step. "
106 " and Dom’s painful swollen knee, and the way it too was exasperated "
107 " this one. These places often reminded him of old films. And for good or ill, he knew that houses were also similar to people. Just as you never really knew what was going on behind a face, you also had no idea what a home really looked like behind the façade. "
― Adam Nevill , Hasty for the Dark
108 " But worst of all, he had become incurious. The "
― Adam Nevill , Under a Watchful Eye
109 " We drive because we forget, he decided. We forget pain, we forget fear, we forget the hot-cold paralysis of near misses, we forget consequences. We forget our vulnerability: the very fragility of our bodies. We forget about our wobbling heads packed with brain matter, mounted on a thin spinal column – the weakest link in the entire animal kingdom. And we forget how we are dependent upon those minuscule threads of nerve tissue that, once severed, remove all sensation from the legs, and introduce the wheezing apparatus that will stand sentinel at our white-sheeted beds. "
110 " – Как ты и сказал, в эти дни главное – пиар. Управление брендом. Социальные сети. Акционирование собственного опыта. Мы все рекламируем себя, как можем. Но какой это оказывается чушью, когда сталкиваешься с чем-то подобным. "