Surrender Quotes

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it. (1.1)

I remember my first sight of him—the sound and scavenger look of him—surrounded by summer; I remember the stillness of the day and the density of the air. Neither of us was older than nine or t...

If you touch me I will bruise; if I shift, to ease my weight, blood rivers from my nose. I am saintly, poetic; I am demise, otherworld. But when Finnigan runs, I run with him. (3.2)

As a boy I was convinced he loved me. He would rattle his cot and snort merrily when I slipped into the room. He was easily entertained with a song, a toy, a waggle of his toes. If I am thin now, h...

I am Gabriel, the messenger, the teller of astonishing truths. Now I am dying, my temperature soaring, my hands and memory tremoring: perhaps I should not be held accountable for everything I say....

I've touched them all: I'm like the plague. I've shared a bed with the best of them, I've shared their finest meals. I've listened to their rumors and the sounds they make at night. I have stood be...

The wind told me it's found. I jump from my tree (they are all my trees) and click for Surrender and breach the hill, him running in the lead. Surrender has heavy bones, heavy ears, a timber tail,...

I know all that goes on in the houses we pass. I tell Surrender about it as we trundle along. Everything here belongs to me: I reign, I infect this town. I'm the unexplained noises, each mislaid bi...