32 Quotes by Jack Ketchum

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    As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.

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    Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

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    You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?” – Tom Waits.

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    You tell me why’s a man’s blood is any better or any more precious than a dog’s blood? It sure ain’t to the dog.

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    The trick of functioning with grief is that of remembering and forgetting all at once. Of letting the ghost walk at your side but not block the way.

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    I have always felt a fundamental core of loneliness in me. Perhaps it comes from being an only child. Perhaps it’s my grandfather’s sullen thick German blood. I have been alone with my wife and alone with my children, untouchable, unreachable, and I suspect that most of the time they haven’t known. It runs deep, this aloneness. I have accommodated it. It informs all my relationships and all my expectations. It makes me almost impossible to surprise by life’s grimmer turns of fate.

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    What a terrible time to find out how good life can be, I thought. And how good to find out anyway.

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