184 Quotes by Victor LaValle

If you haven’t caused a scene in a psych unit, it’s just because you haven’t been inside long enough.

History isn’t a tale told once, it’s a series of revisions.

How many times did you shoot my father?” Tester asked. “I felt in danger for my life,” Mr. Howard said. “I emptied my revolver. Then I reloaded and did it again.

There was a time in this country when a man like him could be sure his children would do better than he had done. Once that was the birthright of every white man in America. But not anymore. Suddenly men like my son were being passed over in the name of things like ‘fairness’ and ‘balance.’ Where’s the justice in that?

The poor aren’t defeated. We’re domesticated.

Even if you choose to ignore the truth, the truth still changes you.

All those tales were told right here, one after the next, each informing the one that came after. History isn’t a tale told once, it’s a series of revisions.

A bad fairy tale has some simple goddamn moral. A great fairy tale tells the truth.

There is a King who sleeps at the bottom of the ocean.