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1 " This isn’t how things were supposed to happen. I was supposed to be me. Not this. "
― Aaron Dries , Where the Dead Go to Die
2 " Yes, this was a haunted place. He had readabout certain materials absorbing the sounds of their surroundings like divots in a vinyl recording, and now, as the sun started to dip below the horizon, this concept chilled him more than the creeping cold. Put a needle to the mortar of these walls and listen to the screams. His own would be among them. "
― Aaron Dries , The Fallen Boys
3 " I'm waltzing with the wrecking ball'Cause this ain't my home anymore. "
4 " We're nothing. We're dust. "
5 " Starke entered his house a detective, slipped off his shoes and became a husband and father. It was five in the morning. The world was blue. He went to the refrigerator and opened the door, looking for answers to mysteries he would never comprehend. So he closed it and settled for water instead. "
6 " Marshall wished he knew what to call her, wished he could memorialize her somehow. There was dignity in eulogies, in little ribbons tied to trees, in a name. "
7 " There's no sadder sight than that of a child's coffin. "
8 " But lurking behind every summer was a fall just waiting to happen. "
9 " Behind every summer is a fall just waiting to happen. "
10 " Darkness fell, gathering sin. "
11 " Michael Delaney used to be fat. Not puppy-padding fat—bursting-frankfurts-in-a-boiling-pot fat. He remembered gym class and swimming lessons. All of the thin guys who could be divided into one of two groups: those who looked but did not comment and those who looked and commented, with enthusiasm... Fat kids are like alcoholics; they always have excuses. "
― Aaron Dries , House of Sighs
12 " Sin is like mold—the longer it lives, the blacker it becomes. And spores can’t be avoided. Never. "
13 " she hoped she never reached that point. Let her heart never grow that hard. "
14 " Nobody wants to be alone. Sure, we fill our lives with people, faces that come and go, we love a lot only to lose more in the end, and if we’re smart—really smart—we take our victories where we get them. But beneath our skins, we siren. "
― Aaron Dries
