Among The Words, Between the pages.

I'm here. Somewhere. Try, come and find me.

[thesoulofbooks]

"Life, after all, was simply to be endured."

— Alison MacLeod, Unexploded

[thesoulofbooks]

"The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing."

— Alison MacLeod, Unexploded

[thesoulofbooks]

"When would he stop being entirely mad and be quiet, be very quiet indeed?"

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

[thesoulofbooks]

"Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it."

— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

[thesoulofbooks]

‌"We all deserve the truth, but take my word for it, sometimes knowing everything doesn't make it any easier to sleep at night."

— Eoin Colfer, The Supernaturalist

[thesoulofbooks]

"They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that."

— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

[thesoulofbooks]

"I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head"

— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on The Train

[thesoulofbooks]

"Sometimes it took all his strength to pull him back to the here and now."

— Ian Rankin, Black and Blue

[thesoulofbooks]

"This was how things were dealt with in this family, you accepted the bad and you made a point of not letting it get the better of you."

— Martina Cole, The Family

[thesoulofbooks]

"Fear was exhausting, but nothing tired a body like hope."

— Alison MacLeod, Unexploded

[thesoulofbooks]

"That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want"

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

[thesoulofbooks]

"Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in."

— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

[thesoulofbooks]

"When you worked a murder investigation, your client was the deceased, mute and cold, but still screaming out for justice. It had to be true, because sometimes if you listened hard enough you could hear them screaming."

— Ian Rankin, Black and Blue

[thesoulofbooks]

"That was the cross that women had to bear; no matter what your children did, they were still your children, and you loved them no matter what."

— Martina Cole, The Family

[thesoulofbooks]

"There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold."

— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

[thesoulofbooks]

"Why, she wondered, do we seem unable to speak of the things that matter most"

— Alison MacLeod, Unexploded

[thesoulofbooks]

“I don't know. We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing."

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451