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01Undated

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

Ilsa J. Bick / quote

02Undated

Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, youdon’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn’t look like drowning and somepeople scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.

Ilsa J. Bick / quote

03Undated

What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.

Ilsa J. Bick / quote

04Undated

You want to brawl. You want to fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.

Ilsa J. Bick / quote

05Undated

Tell yourself you’re dead, the way Matt does, so the past can’t hurt you.

Ilsa J. Bick / quote

06Undated

There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt their sincerity.Yet many others search their entire lives for something—or someone—worth dying for and this is very different. These are the lonely and the desperate, fearful that their lives have no meaning. They yearn for the bullet, if only someone else will pull the trigger.

Ilsa J. Bick / quote

07Undated

..... desire is so much sweeter when you cant have it.

Ilsa J. Bick / quote

08Undated

...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.

Ilsa J. Bick / quote

09Undated

No one can help but stare at the monster, because horror is a cousin to awe.

Ilsa J. Bick / quote

10Undated

As a doc, though, I've seen what happens when people are under a lot of stress. Doesn't always bring out their best. When people are scared, they get angry. They'll do things they never thought they would. They'll bargain and compromise in order to survive; they'll chase after miracle cures and believe just about anything so long as it gives them hope. When hope fails, then watch out. Some people get brutal. They'll turn on each other; they'll become their own worst enemies.

Ilsa J. Bick / quote

11Undated

Honestly, Bob: how do you carve a scream?

Ilsa J. Bick / quote

12Undated

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

Ilsa J. Bick / quote

13Undated

You really didn't appreciate how thick, how powerful water was until you had to fight it.

Ilsa J. Bick / quote

14Undated

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

Ilsa J. Bick / quote

15Undated

Monster or not, he was risking his neck to save her.

Ilsa J. Bick / quote