L.S. Hawker > Quotes

“He's a moron being an asshole. You don't shoot people for being assholes, or the human race would be extinct.”
― LS Hawker, The Drowning Game

“I’m going to look so emo,” Dekker said. I actually started to wonder if they were keeping me here on purpose, that they’d called the cops themselves to get the Crimestopper money. But remembering the car collection in the barn and looking around this beautiful house, I realized my faulty”
― L.S. Hawker, The Drowning Game

“I have approximate knowledge of many things,” Dan said, and”
― L.S. Hawker, End of the Road

“next happened so fast I barely had time to process it. Petty brought her arm up whip-smart, instantly and”
― L.S. Hawker, The Drowning Game

“But this could be—”
― L.S. Hawker, End of the Road

“The time is right,” Martin went on. “The country is divided. The political system is in chaos. Our national debt is crushing. Our current president has alienated our allies and angered our enemies. We’re”
― L.S. Hawker, End of the Road

“With her mother, the silences were more dangerous. Scarier. Because as a kid, when Mom pulled the love away, you knew you were lost. You knew you didn’t exist anymore. She had made you disappear”
― L.S. Hawker, Body and Bone

“Illustrated, ESPN—all this month’s issues. Jade took another bite of Bomb Pop and grinned. “What are you smiling at?” Elias grumbled, rubbing his nicked ear. “I don’t know how to tell you this,” Jade said, “but you are not the center of my universe. I do occasionally react to things outside of you. I know it comes as a shock.”
― L.S. Hawker, End of the Road

“My country does not torture citizens!” Jade”
― L.S. Hawker, End of the Road

“PETTY I SLOWED TO a limp at the crest of the hill, above the tailings pond. There sat the Taurus, parked and running, throwing billowy fumes into the air. I couldn’t swallow, my throat was so dry. I had to recover, and quick. My eyeballs felt as if they’d shrunk and my field of vision was narrowed almost to the point of blindness. I rubbed them and gasped for air, trying to determine if Mitch or Dekker were in the car. It appeared to be empty. Where were they? At the bottom of the slope, by the edge of the water, I saw two mounds of black, like two bears foraging slowly along the rocky ground. Was I hallucinating? But then I saw it was Mitch, dragging Dekker’s motionless body toward the deep lake.”
― L.S. Hawker, The Drowning Game

“There were cigarette butts all over the ground, so many of them it almost looked decorative. “Maybe”
― LS Hawker, The Drowning Game

“What if Martin and—”
― L.S. Hawker, End of the Road

“DEKKER I COULD NOT believe what I was hearing. Surely Randy was bluffing. The microchips for pets that I’d heard about were just for identification, they didn’t have GPS capabilities—that was science fiction stuff. Petty stripped off her hoodie and stared at her own shoulder, her mouth open, horrified, as if it were covered in boils or slugs. “You’re full of shit,” I said to Randy, and my voice was shaky and hoarse. “The technology”
― L.S. Hawker, The Drowning Game

“I shook my head, dazzled by the gleaming lime-green glass tile of the countertop, the matching walls and multicolored abstract painting across from the toilet. The light and color were so radiant, I could almost taste citrus. “Is there a lock on the bedroom door?” I asked.”
― L.S. Hawker, The Drowning Game