12 Quotes by Peter Swanson

I love the beach, everything except the fucking sand, the fucking sun, and the fucking water

I'd like to say something here about how I'll be with Claire again soon, but I don't believe any of that nonsense. When we die, we become nothing. The same nothing we were before we were born, but of course this time that nothingness is forever.

I had survived the vulnerability of childhood, and the danger of first love. There was comfort in knowing that I would never be in either of those positions again, that, from now on, I would be the only person responsible for my own happiness.

أنا شخصٌ سعيد، لطالما كنتُ كذلك. ولكن الأمر كله يتعلق بشخصيتي، والتي لا علاقة لها بعقلي المعطوب الذي يقنعني من وقت لآخر بأنني شخص عديم القيمة لا يستحق الحياة

It was a beautiful spring night, the air rain-washed and smelling of crushed blossoms, and Henry felt as if the muscles of his body were singing in unison.

One of the paradoxes of her anxious life was that in the midst of doing something slightly reckless, Kate often felt the most normal. It was as though her anxiety, always with her, was given a reason for existing.

I’m saying that they were going to spread unhappiness—that they were going to make life miserable for people. By subtracting them from the world, I’ve added to the world’s happiness.

Be Mindful of Death" (Memento Mori)

And to take another life was, in many ways, the greatest expression of what it meant to be alive.