James Sallis Quotes

Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out.

Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.

Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.

The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors.

In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out of you. The only help you'll get is a few hard drinks and morning.

Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.

Time went by, which is what time does, what it is.

Rina’s always claimed that I expect too little from life, ” Standard said.“Then at least you’ll never be disappointed.

Why’d you call, boy? What did you want from me?""The company of a friend, I think.""Always a cheap treat.

The dam of my eyes broke, and tears flooded the land.

Here we raise his children for him, cook for him, bring up his crops, butcher his hogs - even fight his wars for him - and he still won't acknowledge our existence.

We can make up for our actions. But for our inactions, what we fail to do ...