
The Shadows

Graveyards might have housed the dead below the ground, but what lay above was always for the living; they were the places where people came to deal with the break between what their lives had once been and what they now were.
Alex North • The Shadows
Perhaps life was just a matter of doing what you thought was best at the time and then living with the consequences as best you could afterward.
Alex North • The Shadows
As you get older, it all begins to blur into one. You start to think life was never any kind of straight line. It was always more of a … scribble.”
Alex North • The Shadows
When people think they’ve worked something out for themselves, they become more invested in holding on to it as truth.
Alex North • The Shadows
Absence of evidence was not evidence of absence. The fact that I hadn’t found anything didn’t mean there was nothing to find, only that I would never be sure.
Alex North • The Shadows
It’s going to be okay. Yes, I think about that a lot. How every good parent says it, and how often they’re wrong.
Alex North • The Shadows
It’s going to be okay. Twenty-five years have passed, but I still think about that a lot. It’s what all good parents tell their children. And yet what does it really amount to? It’s a hope, a wish. A hostage to fortune. It’s a promise you have to make, and one you must do your best to believe in, because what else is there?