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A Dark Matter QUOTES

A Dark Matter QUOTES

1 " It’s a good thing you write fiction. If you had to describe the real world, nobody would recognize it. "

― Peter Straub , A Dark Matter

2 " Sometimes, it seems like sighted people can hardly see anything. "

― Peter Straub , A Dark Matter

3 " She thought it was too bad it didn’t work the other way around, so you could get braver and smarter as you move up in years. But "

― Peter Straub , A Dark Matter

4 " But this story ends when you open the door. It doesn’t matter if you managed to guess which room is mine, which door I closed behind me. You put your hand on the door handle, you knock, it’s all over. End of story. By choosing one, you chose the other, too. Do you understand why? Those two consequences are joined at the hip, they’re Siamese twins. Even if you picked the door with the lady behind it—all questions answered, all explanations given, your life solved for you—it’s still true that you gave the tiger permission to jump. You gave your assent to catastrophe, you invited tragedy and horror to walk right in. You got lucky, that’s all. Mallon "

― Peter Straub , A Dark Matter

5 " She tasted what she had said and found it sour enough to be accurate. "

― Peter Straub , A Dark Matter

6 " David,” I said, “no matter what my intentions are, everything I write winds up turning into fiction, including my letters to friends. "

― Peter Straub , A Dark Matter

7 " what terrible pain—the pain of what I had not done, of what I had lost because I had not done all of that which I had not done. Whatever it was, I had no idea, I knew only that I had not done it. "

― Peter Straub , A Dark Matter