“What if insanity is just a heightened sense of perception?”
―
Ania Ahlborn,
The Bird Eater
“You don't really dream about the things you can become if you know you can't become them.” ― Ania Ahlborn, The Neighbors
“Every mother has the miraculous ability of momentary blindness.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Within These Walls
“You can’t make people go to your funeral,” Abby said. “They only go if they feel like it.” “They’ll feel like it.” Charlie pulled on a multicolored sock. “I’m gonna be buried in the sandbox next to the monkey bars. They’ll have to go because it’ll be during recess.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Seed
“Even he knew that if demons could exist, it meant there was real evil in the world, and if you believed in the devil, somewhere in the deepest fibers of your being you had to believe in God.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Seed
“It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead. People feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand, looking out the window, sound and well in some new disguise. —Ralph Waldo Emerson” ― Ania Ahlborn, Within These Walls
“I’ve never seen any miracles,” Reagan said, “but I sure as hell have seen my share of darkness. Does God exist? I don’t know. But I kind of hope he does. Because if he doesn’t? We’re probably fucked.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Seed
“some people get addicted to feeling bad because whenever they feel good they feel guilty.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Brother
“But that was how the devil worked, making his appearance when you least expected it.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Seed
“In some ways, writing books is like giving yourself eternal life, isn’t it?” ― Ania Ahlborn, Within These Walls
“They were unlikely neighbors, and unlikely neighbors were the most likely to give each other trouble.” ― Ania Ahlborn, The Neighbors
“You hold up a cross to protect yourself from Satan and he laughs in your face; you serve a vampire a roasted garlic appetizer and he comes back for seconds...on your neck. If this were Hollywood, the priest would be the culprit. He’d turn to his congregation, hold out his arms as if to embrace them, and smile a demon’s smile before pulling them all down to hell.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Seed
“Even he knew that if demons could exist, it meant there was real evil in the world, and if you believed in the devil, somewhere in the deepest fibers of your being you had to believe in God. He knew, firsthand, that the devil was real; he’d seen it with his own two eyes. But he’d never seen God. He’d never felt God. He’d never been helped by God. For all he knew, wickedness was strong enough to exist in a world without good.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Seed
“It was you, it was me, it was us, it was we.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Seed
“The air was always better when the world was sleeping. It made it easier to breathe.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Brother
“Everyone, it seemed, whether a hardened criminal or a father of two, wanted to find some semblance of peace before exhaling a final breath.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Seed
“He had been stupid to think it would have been so easy. Nobody simply walked into paradise.” ― Ania Ahlborn, The Neighbors
“what was past was past. No amount of fond memory could bring back the dead.” ― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater
“That kind of loss came with a lot of guilt, and guilt made people defensive.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Within These Walls
“You don't really dream about the things you can become if you know you can't become them.” ― Ania Ahlborn, The Neighbors
“Every mother has the miraculous ability of momentary blindness.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Within These Walls
“You can’t make people go to your funeral,” Abby said. “They only go if they feel like it.” “They’ll feel like it.” Charlie pulled on a multicolored sock. “I’m gonna be buried in the sandbox next to the monkey bars. They’ll have to go because it’ll be during recess.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Seed
“Even he knew that if demons could exist, it meant there was real evil in the world, and if you believed in the devil, somewhere in the deepest fibers of your being you had to believe in God.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Seed
“It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead. People feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand, looking out the window, sound and well in some new disguise. —Ralph Waldo Emerson” ― Ania Ahlborn, Within These Walls
“I’ve never seen any miracles,” Reagan said, “but I sure as hell have seen my share of darkness. Does God exist? I don’t know. But I kind of hope he does. Because if he doesn’t? We’re probably fucked.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Seed
“some people get addicted to feeling bad because whenever they feel good they feel guilty.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Brother
“But that was how the devil worked, making his appearance when you least expected it.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Seed
“In some ways, writing books is like giving yourself eternal life, isn’t it?” ― Ania Ahlborn, Within These Walls
“They were unlikely neighbors, and unlikely neighbors were the most likely to give each other trouble.” ― Ania Ahlborn, The Neighbors
“You hold up a cross to protect yourself from Satan and he laughs in your face; you serve a vampire a roasted garlic appetizer and he comes back for seconds...on your neck. If this were Hollywood, the priest would be the culprit. He’d turn to his congregation, hold out his arms as if to embrace them, and smile a demon’s smile before pulling them all down to hell.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Seed
“Even he knew that if demons could exist, it meant there was real evil in the world, and if you believed in the devil, somewhere in the deepest fibers of your being you had to believe in God. He knew, firsthand, that the devil was real; he’d seen it with his own two eyes. But he’d never seen God. He’d never felt God. He’d never been helped by God. For all he knew, wickedness was strong enough to exist in a world without good.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Seed
“It was you, it was me, it was us, it was we.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Seed
“The air was always better when the world was sleeping. It made it easier to breathe.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Brother
“Everyone, it seemed, whether a hardened criminal or a father of two, wanted to find some semblance of peace before exhaling a final breath.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Seed
“He had been stupid to think it would have been so easy. Nobody simply walked into paradise.” ― Ania Ahlborn, The Neighbors
“what was past was past. No amount of fond memory could bring back the dead.” ― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater
“That kind of loss came with a lot of guilt, and guilt made people defensive.” ― Ania Ahlborn, Within These Walls
