Quotes of Peter Swanson

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“Books are time travel. True readers all know this. But books don’t just take you back to the time in which they were written; they can take you back to different versions of yourself.” ― Peter Swanson, Eight Perfect Murders
“Everyone has a full life, even if it ends soon. All lives are complete experiences.” ― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing
“any life at all is probably more than any of us deserves.” ― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing
“You were created for more than to bear the weight of your shadows- but you have to choose to no longer let them define you. You have to choose to let the light shine through the shattered pieces.” – Tiger Lilly” ― Kara Swanson, Dust
“Everyone dies, but not everyone has to see someone they love with another person. She struck the first blow.” ― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing
“And to take another life was, in many ways, the greatest expression of what it meant to be alive.” ― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing
“Everyone dies. What difference does it make if a few bad apples get pushed along a little sooner than God intended?” ― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing
“I’ve always felt that being with people, as opposed to being alone, can make you feel loneliness more acutely.” ― Peter Swanson, Eight Perfect Murders
“Or was she one of those rarities, a human who didn’t need other humans in her life?” ― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing
“I am a happy person, always have been. But that’s just my personality, which has nothing to do with this broken brain that periodically and very convincingly tells me that I’m a worthless person who doesn’t deserve to live.” ― Peter Swanson, Before She Knew Him
“I was born with a different kind of morality. The morality of an animal—of a crow or a fox or an owl—and not of a normal human being. I” ― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing
“No, the ache in my chest was that I felt alone. That there were no other humans in the world who knew what I knew. I” ― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing
“I love the beach, everything except the fucking sand, the fucking sun, and the fucking water” ― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing
“We all fight the shadows. Even the ones we can’t remember. - Peter” ― Kara Swanson, Dust
“Truthfully, I don't think murder is necessarily as bad as people make it out to be. Everyone dies. What difference does it make if a few bad apples get pushed along a little sooner than God intended? And your wife, for example, seems like the kind worth killing.” ― Peter Swanson
“Strangers are just friends we haven’t met yet.” ― Peter Swanson
“Be Mindful of Death" (Memento Mori)” ― Peter Swanson
“I dreamed of my other family, the imaginary one with boring parents,” ― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing
“I imagine she acted the way she thought you wanted to see her.” ― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing
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Peter Swanson

Peter Swanson is the author of six novels including The Kind Worth Killing, winner of the New England Society Book Award, and finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, Her Every Fear, an NPR book of the year, and his most recent thriller, Eight Perfect M…

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