She felt it. This was not her imagination. It was all around her, but she couldn’t get a handle on it. It was as untouchable as the static between two radio channels.

Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Hex [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher]

Hermetic quote Heuvelt Hex static between two channels

Consider also:

  1. “Lighthouse keepers were once warned they shouldn’t listen to the sea for too long; likewise, you could hear voices in the static and lose your mind.”
  2. “one puzzle she couldn’t solve was people. To Ada, they all seemed to be broken in ways she couldn’t make sense of, and couldn’t fix.”
  3. You adapted, and you made sacrifices. You did it for your children or for love. You did it because of illness or because of an accident. You did it because you had new dreams
  4. “Within the laughter lies a collective relief so deep-seated that it becomes a little uncanny.”
  5. “The guy is nuts. He sees omens in morning wood.”