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The Sun Down Motel QUOTES

The Sun Down Motel QUOTES

1 " The person who could be truly alone, in the company of no one but oneself and one’s own thoughts—that person was stronger than anyone else. More ready. More prepared. "

― Simone St. James , The Sun Down Motel

2 " For the odd girls, the nerdy girls, and the murderinos. This one is yours. "

― Simone St. James , The Sun Down Motel

3 " This place is dark.” “Some of us like the dark. It’s what we know. "

― Simone St. James , The Sun Down Motel

4 " I put my book down, finding a Post-it note to use as a bookmark, because folding the corner of a page—even in a thirty-year-old book—is sacrilege. "

― Simone St. James , The Sun Down Motel

5 " the books I read were the dark kind—about scary things like disappearances and murders, especially the true ones. While other kids read J. K. Rowling, I read Stephen King. While other kids did history reports about the Civil War, I read about Lizzie Borden. "

― Simone St. James , The Sun Down Motel

6 " The person who could be truly alone, in the company of no one but oneself and one’s own thoughts—that person was stronger than anyone else. "

― Simone St. James , The Sun Down Motel

7 " I took my glasses off and set them to the table... The world went pleasantly blurry, and I didn´t have to see the details anymore. "

― Simone St. James , The Sun Down Motel

8 " I bet you could sleep in the right place,” I said. “Not just at the motel. You can’t spend the rest of your life here. I bet you could sleep if you were in a place that made you happy. Where you knew you’d wake up to something good. "

― Simone St. James , The Sun Down Motel

9 " How it didn’t matter how afraid or how careful you were—it could always be you. "

― Simone St. James , The Sun Down Motel

10 " I’m the one you didn’t kill, "

― Simone St. James , The Sun Down Motel

11 " I think it’s instructive to be awake in the middle of the night every once in a while. To really see what you’re missing while you’re usually sleeping. "

― Simone St. James , The Sun Down Motel

12 " Misery came off him like a smell. "

― Simone St. James , The Sun Down Motel

13 " How it was always girls who ended up stripped and dead like roadkill. How it didn’t matter how afraid or how careful you were—it could always be you. "

― Simone St. James , The Sun Down Motel

14 " Dark things are real things "

― Simone St. James , The Sun Down Motel

15 " The person who could be truly alone, in the company of no one but oneself and one's own thoughts - that person was stronger than anyone else. "

― Simone St. James , The Sun Down Motel

16 " Her entire life in Illinois had been about what doing what other people expected, never what she actually wanted. "

― Simone St. James , The Sun Down Motel

17 " sleep.” “I bet you could sleep in the right place,” I said. “Not just at the motel. You can’t spend the rest of your life here. I bet you could sleep if you were in a place that made you happy. Where you knew you’d wake up to something good. "

― Simone St. James , The Sun Down Motel

18 " grabbed my coat. “We can go now. The sun’s starting to come up. We have just enough light.” “Don’t you have to be at work?” Heather asked. “They can fire me. I came to Fell for this, remember? This is all I want. "

― Simone St. James , The Sun Down Motel

19 " That’s the other thing,” I said. Beneath me, the ice machine made a random rumble, like a belch, and the inner workings clicked. It was weird, thinking about this machine making ice year after year when no one ever needed it. I waited politely until it was finished before I continued. "

― Simone St. James , The Sun Down Motel

20 " Libraries were my places. I was that girl who maxed out her library card every week, starting with The Hobbit and The Witch of Blackbird Pond and moving up from there. "

― Simone St. James , The Sun Down Motel