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1 " It was a beautiful spring night, the air rain-washed and smelling of crushed blossoms, and Henry felt as if the muscles of his body were singing in unison. "
― Peter Swanson , Her Every Fear
2 " أنا شخصٌ سعيد، لطالما كنتُ كذلك. ولكن الأمر كله يتعلق بشخصيتي، والتي لا علاقة لها بعقلي المعطوب الذي يقنعني من وقت لآخر بأنني شخص عديم القيمة لا يستحق الحياة "
― Peter Swanson
3 " Books are time travel. True readers all know this. But books don’t just take you back to the time in which they were written; they can take you back to different versions of yourself. "
― Peter Swanson , Eight Perfect Murders
4 " Everyone has a full life, even if it ends soon. All lives are complete experiences. "
― Peter Swanson , The Kind Worth Killing
5 " any life at all is probably more than any of us deserves. "
6 " Everyone dies, but not everyone has to see someone they love with another person. She struck the first blow. "
7 " Everyone dies. What difference does it make if a few bad apples get pushed along a little sooner than God intended? "
8 " Or was she one of those rarities, a human who didn’t need other humans in her life? "
9 " I’ve always felt that being with people, as opposed to being alone, can make you feel loneliness more acutely. "
10 " And to take another life was, in many ways, the greatest expression of what it meant to be alive. "
11 " I was born with a different kind of morality. The morality of an animal—of a crow or a fox or an owl—and not of a normal human being. I "
12 " No, the ache in my chest was that I felt alone. That there were no other humans in the world who knew what I knew. I "
13 " I am a happy person, always have been. But that’s just my personality, which has nothing to do with this broken brain that periodically and very convincingly tells me that I’m a worthless person who doesn’t deserve to live. "
― Peter Swanson , Before She Knew Him
14 " I always say that two martinis are too many, and three is not enough. "
15 " I dreamed of my other family, the imaginary one with boring parents, "
16 " I imagine she acted the way she thought you wanted to see her. "
17 " I love the beach, everything except the fucking sand, the fucking sun, and the fucking water "
18 " If I had reasons to love you, then there’d be reasons for me to not love you "
19 " If you gave a man just the smallest amount of power—a handsome face, the ability to sing, a little money—the first thing he’d do is destroy a woman, or two if he could. "
20 " I tried to sleep, falling into a doze as thin as tissue paper, "
