Carla H. Krueger quotes:

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  • You need a father figure in your life.

  • No trees, sky or ground. No other buildings or fields. No winding path, no brambles, no outhouse or pond or flowers, no sunshine or children playing. Just blackness.

  • The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.

  • Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.

  • Shame comes in different doses.

  • Ever been expecting guests for a dinner party & had to clear up a massive LEGO space-station before they arrived? (Who needs kids to play?!)

  • Happy endings. *Groan*

  • Katie quickly learned the best way is to see another world entirely.

  • Pain is usually all on the surface, but this terror is internal; not just a hurt, but a new language of feeling.

  • Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.

  • Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.

  • Truth starts with a sense.

  • Dwelling on the loneliness inherent in a city such as this when you dream of endless mountains and expanses of blue sky is a recipe for torment.

  • Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.

  • His manhood sways briefly, then comes to a standstill.

  • Every time I so much as blink you get an erection.

  • Kalist likes to listen to the collective voices swell as more individuals in his colony arrive.

  • Baumauer wants a life in which he cannot be belittled, judged or controlled by worse men.

  • Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.

  • Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs.

  • I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.

  • It was all death.

  • One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.

  • The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.

  • When I see the confident light in his eye cloud over, the animal in the corner of mine wakes up.

  • Creativity is as much about order against freedom; control versus rebellion; organisation against disorder as it is about straightforward imagination.

  • I need a new trick if I am to walk without legs, see without eyes or speak without words.

  • Right now, in this dusty anti-paradise, I have absolutely no hand in the future at all.

  • A thick rivulet of lost blood reflects a city that will mourn but never die.

  • My characters don't always know more than the reader does, because my readers get the best seat in Paper House.

  • Our light will be their death.

  • You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.

  • The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome.

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