Quotes from book

Dark Places

“I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.”

“There are few phrases that annoy me more than I won't bite. The only line that pisses me off faster is when some drunk, ham-faced dude in a bar sees me trying to get past him and barks: Smile, it can't be that bad! Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad.”

“I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone.”

“Coffee goes great with sudden death.”

“The actual stuff my family owned, those boxes under my stairs, I can't quite bear to look at. I like other people's things better. They come with other people's history.”

“I should just listen to my gut and then do the opposite.”

“It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that simply wasn't so”

“I have a meanness inside of me, real as an organ.”

“Sometimes he felt like he'd been gone his whole life--in exile, away from the place he was supposed to be, and that, soldier-like, he was pining to be returned. Homesick for a place he'd never been.”

“I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.”

“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”

“I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.”

“Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.”

“Do you understand this is serious?"

"I understand you think it's serious.”

“Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it.”

“Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.”

“I've had the blues for twenty-four years.”

“Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.”