Patrick Logan > Quotes

“Everyone’s an addict—everyone is addicted to something.”
― Patrick Logan, Skin

“It was like the car wreck to end all car wrecks: no matter how much he wanted to just keep on driving, to resist the temptation to slow, he… just… couldn’t… look… away.”
― Patrick Logan, Skin

“Landon cut out early, had some business to attend to.” The man gnashed the gum obnoxiously. “You finish the Butternut file?”
― Patrick Logan, Shallow Graves

“Tell the Goat we’re coming for him. Tell him”
― Patrick Logan, Daughter

“wasn’t Ruth coming onto the roof to collect her daughter. There was just no way the old crone could be that nimble. Besides, this figure was larger, much larger, and had a thick brown mustache and dark pockets encircling even darker eyes. Eyes like Patricia’s. It was the man whose picture was up on the mantle beside Ruth’s; it was James Harlop. Robert was tempted to close his eyes, to will all of this nonsense away, when a thunderclap brought him back. He suddenly felt dizzy, caught between two worlds. His senses were telling him that this was real, that there really was a girl on the roof with”
― Patrick Logan, Shallow Graves

“Loneliness was like an ill-fitting glove, one that only served to annoy rather than to offer comfort and warmth.”
― Patrick Logan, Frozen Stiff

“The question was, could he really forget about her? About the woman who was more than enough for him?”
― Patrick Logan, Mother

“girl with no home, no memory, and no parents.”
― Patrick Logan, Mother

“impossible to tell—the basement had no windows, no light. It could have been noon or midnight, there was just no way for her to know. She had tried to get out, of course. The first few days that she had been trapped down there, she had done everything she could to try to escape. But her efforts had only ended in tearing her fingernails off and making her voice raw from shouting. She had started with screaming, demanding to be let out, but when this had gone unanswered, she’d soon regressed to passionate pleas, desperate sobs, and eventually to apologies.”
― Patrick Logan, Shallow Graves

“the longer she spent in the basement, the more she became accustomed to these nightmarish things, adapted to them, even. She was amazed how the human body could adapt, but what the girl, even at her young age, quickly came to realize was that the proclivity for the human mind”
― Patrick Logan, Shallow Graves

“Alex felt her forehead lengthen.”
― Patrick Logan, Tell Me What You've Done

“Part of her unyielding desire for control meant that she couldn’t even listen to other people’s problems. How could she deal with their problems if she didn’t come close to dealing with her own? Not to mention that her own problems were so large that she didn't have room for others’.”
― Patrick Logan, Dirty Money

“You do nt care u hhhate me .”
― Patrick Logan, Mother

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― Patrick Logan, Butterfly Kisses

“It felt odd knowing that the world continued on even when your existence seemed to cease.”
― Patrick Logan, Butterfly Kisses

“A yacht named B-yacht’ch.”
― Patrick Logan, Bitter End

“Now it was dented, used, wounded.”
― Patrick Logan, Father

“reading books, watching shows, even practicing wasn’t like the real thing. And it bothered her when people tried to pretend it was. Go watch all the hockey games on TV that you can feast your eyes on. Read every book on strategy, stick-handling, hitting, defense, everything you can possibly find. Now go step on the ice. Do you feel ready? You’re good to play in your first game?”
― Patrick Logan, Mother

“The stark reality was that when the loudest people started shouting ‘America First,’ what they really meant was, ‘Me First.’ They didn’t give a flying fuck about the country. The only thing they cared about was their own personal wealth.”
― Patrick Logan, Dirty Money

“just wanted to try and start over, you know? For me and Amy?” Cal raised an eyebrow inquisitively at this. “Well, yeah, I mean the place is huge… I get it. I won’t lie to you, Cal—I wanted the money from this place. Need”
― Patrick Logan, Shallow Graves

“noon or midnight, there was just no way for her to know. She had tried to get out, of course. The first few days that she had been trapped down there, she had done everything she could to try to escape. But her efforts had only ended in tearing her fingernails off and making her voice raw from shouting. She had started with screaming,”
― Patrick Logan, Shallow Graves

“Paradoxical undressing: when a person is close to freezing, they suddenly feel warm and take off all their clothes.”
― Patrick Logan, Frozen Stiff

“Still slutty, still to the unsub’s liking, but something that didn’t hug her ass so tight that she wasn’t able to fart if she needed to.”
― Patrick Logan, Shadow Suspect

“The printing finished—eighty-nine pages in under a minute—before he even made it there. A quick glance to check that the pages were collated properly, then he slipped a wide clip on the top left-hand corner. Then he put the report into the folder marked Butter and Squash Produce.”
― Patrick Logan, Shallow Graves

“There may come a time when I give up, but not now. Not yet.”
― Patrick Logan, Mother

“niceties and social graces hadn’t taken so much of a backseat as they weren’t even on the same bus.”
― Patrick Logan, Frozen Stiff

“Refer to someone as a fag, in jest? Forget about it. You’d be better off calling them a motherfucking cunt, instead.”
― Patrick Logan, Daughter

“Sleep took her like the moon takes night.”
― Patrick Logan, Frozen Stiff

“completely”
― Patrick Logan, Shallow Graves

“crossed himself, wiped the tears from his cheeks, and gave his daughter the last rites.”
― Patrick Logan, Daughter