184 Quotes by Victor LaValle

Do you know how much harm ‘happily ever after’ has done to mankind? I wish they said something else at the end of those stories instead. ‘They tried to be happy.’ Or ‘Eternal happiness is a fruitless pursuit.

The Sleeping King. At some point Suydam called this being by another name, his true name, but Tommy Tester could never recall it. Or perhaps his mind chose to forget.

Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman’s displeasure.

Destroy if all, then hand what was left over to Robert Suydam and these gathered goons? What would they do differently? Mankind didn’t make messes; mankind was the mess.

I bear a hell within me,” Black Tom growled. “And finding myself unsympathized with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.

They scolded working mothers who were damaging their poor kids by their need to make a living.

Women only like jerks.’ That’s the mantra of dudes who have made themselves undateable but aren’t willing to take the blame.

The shame wasn’t in discovering that she had a price; everyone had one of those. Maybe it was just in learning, so concretely, that this was what she cost.

Whatever fuckery was about to unfold, she would meet it with swagger.