115 Quotes by Stephen Graham Jones

Everything makes sense if you look at it long enough.

In the old days, the boy’s mom would have gotten a name for what she did: Shoots the Car Twice or Four Holes in the Glass or Doesn’t Ever Learn or Can’t Stop Fighting.

This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice – blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then made to dance across the page.

You never tell your mom anything that might worry her. Moms have enough to worry about already.

A thousand truck-stop T-shirts can’t be wrong.

A long time ago Darren had said that bears and wolves weren’t meant to get along. I thought he’d been talking about state troopers, though. This.

Peta reaches up to his forehead, delicately removes a flake of paint from the basketball pole, and then pulls him to her chest, her palm to his cheek, and this, her, it’s home, and it’s not haunted, not even a little.

I do love the challenge of screenplays. They’re so difficult, such an alien form. It makes them endlessly fascinating. Something I can’t keep my fingers out of.

The ladder tilts the opposite way, like it doesn’t want to be involved in anything this ugly, and all of this is in the slowest possible motion for Lewis, his head snapping as many pictures as it can on the way down, like they can stack up under him, break his fall.