69 Quotes by Vera Jane Cook

The whole process disgusts me, just put me in the goddamn earth and walk away. I don’t want to lie on a cold slab in some old house waiting to have my innards drained and embalming fluid put inside my poor dead body, just put me in the goddamn earth and walk away.

She doesn’t respond, of course. She smirks. I guess she thinks of a smirk as a greeting.

That’s the thing about fine things, they couldn’t alienate, they had to invite, as hers did.

Clarissa thought that was the problem with toothpaste, it always wound up looking like it had a drunken binge the night before and was spitting up all over itself.

The young should only know where they’re headed.

I mean, how does that crazy preacher know where the dead go and how the hell does he know the dead like being there? He’s trying to make it sound like the only reason we get born is to bite the dust.

I live in a world of lies, I might as well learn early that lies come with the territory. You befriend people, you grow up and marry, you work and you lie to everyone, your boss, your spouse and your best friend. You tell big lies, little lies, the world is a bunch of lies. You teach your children to lie because you believe that the only protection they will ever have from any kind of harm will be in the lies they tell.

I felt at any moment I might be swooped up and eaten by the profound sad tales of a Weeping Willow.

No truth on this goddamn planet ever made its way out of your mouth. If truth was hanging out of your nose you’d blow that goddamn truth bugger into a snot rag and toss it into a fire pit.