10 Quotes by Ian Kirkpatrick

Sweetie – look, I get it. I’ve read those books too. You have Stockholm Syndrome. He’s an asshole and you refuse to leave him. We can fix that mindset of yours though, first by giving you a haircut. That’s how all girls find their identities again after a really bad relationship. Haven’t you seen the movies? You’re not doomed, just a little frumpy.

I walked out just like her, you bitch. If I walked out, it would be my condemnation of him. I would be the reason he gave up and put a gun to his head and fed the blood-lusting mud of Bodymore. I don’t know what it is about this place that makes people desperate.Desperate for a future.Desperate for money.Desperate for someone else.It’s always everything we don’t have that’s going to solve that desperation.

Beautiful women were an asset to most men, even men who were taken couldn’t bring themselves to ignore a woman in distress. It was not because they always wanted something, but because they couldn’t help responding. Virtue was something always worth protecting because there was so little of it left.

The world is run by cynics and abusers, Kelly and it’s a damn shame. I don’t know if there’s anything any of us can do. Fight it? How long you think people’ve been fighting these urges? This… human nature. The best thing any of us can do is take care of ourselves. God damned the future like he damned our childhoods.

Alex tossed the towel onto the counter. “Part on the left or right?” he said. “No middle parts though. Only future serial killer victims part their hair in the middle.

Gavin recognized the look of his father, a half-empty bottle of resentment in his hand.

He built a reputation by having the most peculiar temperament in the league. Referees became hesitant to flag breaks in the rules or messy plays, and other players became wary of calling Johnny out on inappropriate form, or backing up the ref. He soared to the top of the league, entered the international championship, and was supposed to be awarded second. They met for the handshake and his opponent met God.

Virginians don’t belong in Maryland for the same reason Marylanders don’t belong in Virginia. When we meet, it should be in DC where everyone is the same kind of nasty: feds.

Ellie wasn’t half as adored as her mother. Though she was sweet, there was something about the way she carried herself or spoke to others that always seemed fake. When they first met, Mathias’s first instinct was repulsion