5 Quotes by Harrison Scott Key

In one terrible instant, that terrible thing happened, the single most tragic experience of my, and just about any, childhood: boredom.

But having people meet my family was a secret fear. It would be like taking someone to a dark room to show them my anal fissures, and you can't just go introducing everybody to your anal fissures. Only special people get to see such as that.

The South is a strange place, one that can't be fit inside a movie, a place that dares you to simplify it, like a prime number, like a Bible story, like my father.

The South is a strange place, one that can’t be fit inside a movie, a place that dares you to simplify it, like a prime number, like a Bible story, like my father.

But having people meet my family was a secret fear. It would be like taking someone to a dark room to show them my anal fissures, and you can’t just go introducing everybody to your anal fissures. Only special people get to see such as that.