The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Quotes
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“How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home?”
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“If this isn’t hell, the devil is surely taking notes.”
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“Too little information and you're blind, too much and you're blinded.”
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“We are never more ourselves than when we think people aren’t watching.”
― The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“Nothing like a mask to reveal somebody's true nature.”
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“Can’t you see, these masks we wear betray us. They reveal us.”
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“So many memories and secrets, so many burdens. Every life has such weight. I don’t know how anybody carries even one.”
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“Anger’s solid, it has weight. You can beat your fists against it. Pity’s a fog to become lost within.”
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“Life doesn’t always leave you a choice in how you live it.”
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“What use is rearranging the furniture if you burn the house down doing it?”
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“The future isn’t a warning my friend, it’s a promise, and it won’t be broken by us. That’s the nature of the trap we’re caught in.”
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home? This lost, I decide. Precisely this lost.”
― The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“...bars can't build better men and misery can only break what goodness remains.”
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“If this is hell, then it's one of our making.”
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“I'm saying every man is in a cage of his own making.”
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“Tomorrow can be whatever I want it to be, which means for the first time in decades, I can look forward to it. Instead of being something to fear, it can be a promise I make myself. A chance to be braver or kinder, to make what was wrong right. To be better than I am today.
Every day after this one is a gift.
I just have to keep walking until I get there.”
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Every day after this one is a gift.
I just have to keep walking until I get there.”
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“One by one I knit these new memories together until I’ve got five minutes of past to wrap myself in.”
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“I’m no longer a man, I’m a chorus”
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“That’s the beauty of corrupt men, you can always rely on them to be corrupt”
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“The last time I entered this forest, my mind never made it back.”
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“I'm any face in a crowd; just the Lord's way of filling in the gaps.”
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“Tomorrow, I'll see his face in the mirror, and, somehow, I"ll have to make it mine. To do that, I need to start again, free of the past, free of him and the mistakes he made.
Instead of the impossible, I'll need only to concern myself with the ordinary. The luxury of waking up in the same bed.... The luxury of sunshine. The luxury of honesty. The luxury of living a life...
Tomorrow can be whatever I want it to be, which means for the first time in decades, I can look forward to it. Instead of being something to fear, it can be a promise I make myself. A chance to be braver or kinder, to make what was wrong right. To be better than I am today.
Every day after this one is a gift.
I just have to keep walking until I get there.”
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Instead of the impossible, I'll need only to concern myself with the ordinary. The luxury of waking up in the same bed.... The luxury of sunshine. The luxury of honesty. The luxury of living a life...
Tomorrow can be whatever I want it to be, which means for the first time in decades, I can look forward to it. Instead of being something to fear, it can be a promise I make myself. A chance to be braver or kinder, to make what was wrong right. To be better than I am today.
Every day after this one is a gift.
I just have to keep walking until I get there.”
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“Wealth is poisonous to the soul, and my parents have been wealthy a very long time—as have most of the guests who will be at this party. Their manners are a mask; you’d do well to remember that.”
― The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“Not all hells are created equal.”
― The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“Oh, don’t mind me,” she says. “I loathe getting to know people, so whenever I meet somebody I like, I just assume a friendship immediately. It saves a great deal of time in the long run.”
― The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“The Plague Doctor claimed Blackheath was meant to rehabilitate us, but bars can’t build better men and misery can only break what goodness remains. This place pinches out the hope in people, and without that hope, what use is love or compassion or kindness?”
― The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“Yet instead of being angry, he pities me. That's the worst part. Anger's solid, it has weight. You can beat your fists against it. Pity's a fog to become lost in.”
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“Thankfully, the leaves and twigs are so demoralized by the earlier rain they don't have the heart to cry out beneath my feet.”
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“Chairs and chaise longues have been gathered around the fire, young women draped over them like wilted orchids, smoking cigarettes and clinging to their drinks.”
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“The world’s shrivelling beyond the windows, darkening at the edges and blackening at the centre.”
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
― The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle