184 Quotes by Victor LaValle

To believe in only the practical, the rational, the realistic was a kind of glamour as well. But he couldn’t enjoy the illusion of order anymore. Monsters aren’t real until you meet one.

You can’t choose blindness when it suits you. Not anymore.

This wasn’t about an infraction, but dictating a philosophy of life: certain types of people must be overseen.

Even monsters hold high opinions of themselves.

There are stories about perfection, but those stories are lies. No one ever made the world better by being perfect. There is only mess in humans, and sometimes that mess turns to magic, and sometimes that magic turns to kindness, to salvation, to survival.

A thought, an idea, a shared dream; parenthood is a story two people start telling together.

Apollo greeted the other fathers, and they greeted him. He didn’t remember their names. They didn’t remember his. They knew the names of each other’s children, and that mattered more.

The Sleeping King is dead but dreaming.

You know what this country is?” she said. “This country is a man trying to describe a burning building without using the word fire.