32 Quotes by Jack Ketchum

Bad enough I’m a goddamn burden to myself.

I see Donny turning to throw the words over his shoulder on his way across the lawn to the porch. Casually, but with an odd sort of sincerity about him, as though this were absolute gospel. “My mom says Meg’s the lucky one,” he said. “My mom says she got off easy.

People were complex creatures, walking, talking rag quilts, youthful dreams and hopes and fears and middle-aged indiscretions, aging aches and pains and losses, the whole damn kit and kaboodle, mended here and tattered there. People were pushed and pulled in all sorts of directions and did whatever it was they had to do for balance.

It’s a cold, stark emptiness that has no laughter in it. No compassion, and no mercy. It’s feral. Like the eyes of a hunting animal.

There were so many hidden realities in the world, so many secret lives. It seemed like nobody lived just one.

A tired life breeds tired decisions, sometimes none at all.

It was a time when even the guilty displayed a rare innocence. In.

He was a good man and a kind man but he never knew what he wanted. I think that eventually it killed him.

Someone once said to me that if you want to make God laugh, just tell him your plans. Just tell him who you are.