“The guaranteed cure for heartbreak: find pain that’s much, much worse.”
― Will McIntosh, quote from Love Minus Eighty
“It's funny. Friendships are Catch twenty-twos when you're single and in your thirties. Friends are your life rafts. You try to help each other meet people, you confide in each other, you spend Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, all those emotional land-mine holidays together. But sooner or later one of you is going to meet someone and be gone into the world of couples.”
― Will McIntosh, quote from Love Minus Eighty
“I’m just–” She wanted to say “not in the mood,” but that was not only a cliché but a vast understatement. She was dead.”
― Will McIntosh, quote from Love Minus Eighty
“Why was it so unlikely that you could meet your soul mate by hitting her with your vehicle? Why was it more likely you’d meet her at your cousin’s wedding?”
― Will McIntosh, quote from Love Minus Eighty
“The mind always found its way back to baseline.”
― Will McIntosh, quote from Love Minus Eighty
“The profile’s the key, the absolute key to modern dating. If you can get quality people to look at your profile, it becomes a numbers game. The more views, the more hits. The more hits, the more the odds climb that you’ll find a compatible mate.”
― Will McIntosh, quote from Love Minus Eighty
“She had nine hundred thirty-one viewers at the moment. Another sixty-nine, and sponsorships would kick in.”
― Will McIntosh, quote from Love Minus Eighty
“Because I don’t really want to fall in love. Nathan is safe because he’s unattainable.”
― Will McIntosh, quote from Love Minus Eighty
“This is the future,” Lycan said. “Connecting people to each other directly.”
― Will McIntosh, quote from Love Minus Eighty
“Right leg gone? Her right leg? She couldn’t see anything except the man hanging over and a gold-coloured ceiling, high, high above. “This is a hospital?” she asked.
“No, no. A dating centre.”
― Will McIntosh, quote from Love Minus Eighty
“What?" The dread in her tone told Rob she knew what. "How much longer?"
"Thirty seconds."
She laughed with a panicked urgency. "I just tried to nod. I can't feel my body, but I keep reaching for it, you know?"
Rob nodded, feeling guilty he was able to.
"How about this? I'll just tell you when I'm nodding, or shaking my head, or punching you."
"Oh, no," Rob laughed, "are you planning on punching me often?"
"We'll see."
Rob couldn't help glancing at the timer, though he knew it would only make Winter more aware of what was about to happen. Seven seconds.
"I keep expecting this to get easier, taht it will start to feel as if I'm going to sleep. But it doesn't. Maybe it's not possible to get used to dying."
Rob reached out to comfort her, then remembered it was forbidden and drew back. If not for the surveillance, Rob would have reached under the silver cover and taken her hand, cold and stiff as it would have been.”
― Will McIntosh, quote from Love Minus Eighty
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“You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise at the world. ”
― A.S. Byatt, quote from The Children's Book
“There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own.”
― Jeanette Winterson, quote from Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
“Outrage alternated with a sweaty fear he had never before felt. Something, it seemed to him was being drained from him, leaving the body feeling like a very dry sponge, very light, completely at the mercy of sly toying gusts of wind.”
― Ayi Kwei Armah, quote from The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
“Every day now, I found a chance to slip outside and leave food under the fence. I knew it was a drop in the ocean, but I could not do nothing.”
― Irene Gut Opdyke, quote from In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
“We were like two moths around a candle, I thought, circling closer and closer to the flame, waiting to see whose wings would catch fire first.”
― Tan Twan Eng, quote from The Garden of Evening Mists
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