32 Quotes by Jack Ketchum

The dead are home before us, daddy, she said. But we have work to do.

I lay in bed and thought about how easy it was to hurt a person. It didn’t have to be physical. All you had to do was take a good hard kick at something they cared about.

The life he’d known now seemed capable of multiple, even infinite shatterings.

Thinking about writing isn’t writing. Planning to write isn’t writing. Neither is talking about it, posting about it, or complaining how hard it is. These may be part of the process. But only writing is writing.

I know we all are lonely. Locked off from one another in some fundamental secrecy. But some of us declare war and some of us don’t.