39 Quotes by Lisa Henry

What sort of place lets you drive and vote and fuck before it lets you drink a beer?” ~Mark Cooper

You should see the murderous stares I get on the street. Though I think that has less to do with seeing a man carrying a purse and more to do with paisley. Paisley makes everyone cranky.

I'm not letting you give me a dinosaur and run away!" Dinosaurs fucking meant something.

(Brin) 'How good is your lawyer, on a scale of Atticus Finch to Franklin and Bash?

(Derek) “How do you see the beauty in a three-eared dog but not in a guy with big teeth?”(Christy) “Dogs rule. People drool.”(Derek) “Only if you gag them.

(Erin) 'What do you think gave you this interest?' Yep. There it was. 'I’m not saying anything bad about it. I just wonder what makes one person want to hit another. Did I not give you enough contact when you were young? Should I have breast-fed?'(Derek)'I’m pretty sure it started when you left me in the bread aisle when I was two. I started thinking the only way to get people to notice me was to tie them up and whip them.

You couldn't calculate grief, Josh knew, couldn't put a value on it.

But shit, I've never been that complicated. Physical pain gets a physical response. Everything else is nobody's fucking business.

'Maybe you out to go back there.' 'Can't. Gotta stay where... where I know what's what.' Where I don't forget what I am, and that I don't deserve anything better. Would wreck anything better. 'I Reckon that's what most of us think. But there's more strangers where you're from than in some sandland halfway around the world. And more strangers in your head than any place on the map.'