Richard Gleaves > Quotes

“She wasn’t just old, not anymore. She’d sailed right past old and into the port called Decrepitude.”
― Richard Gleaves, Sleepy Hollow: Rise Headless and Ride

“living is hard, like anything else worth doing well.”
― Richard Gleaves, Sleepy Hollow: General of the Dead

“The New Jersey Palisades had cut the throat of the sun. She bled copious color into the water-blue sky, arterial scarlet and venous purple, then fell behind the horizon, into her grave, shrouded by aquamarine clouds. The Earth turned its face away and dressed itself in black, lowering a mournful veil of night, hanging crepe over the mirror of the Hudson. The moon filled with lamentations, the wind howled its grief, and the stars lit votives for the funeral of the day.”
― Richard Gleaves, Sleepy Hollow: General of the Dead

“Hadewych harrumphed and informed him he was going to hell. The nights were bitter cold but Jason stayed in the RV. He never had the Nightmare anymore unless he dozed off in his old room or in class. That had happened once. Really embarrassing. He’d shouted with fright, awakening Mr. Wollenberg, and had earned a derisive chuckle from Eddie and his boys. Only in the RV was he safe. But the RV had no heat. He’d begun to enjoy sleep again and he dreaded having to choose eventually between the Nightmare and frostbite. He’d had no more magnetic poetry messages from Eliza but he knew she was still there. He could feel her… living… alongside him. Objects moved on their own behind his back. Sometimes Charley would yip and bark at the air.”
― Richard Gleaves, Sleepy Hollow: Bridge of Bones

“They sang about the flutter of love and the laughter of accomplishment—about the tears we shed at the sight of grandeur, tears of longing, because life isn’t always like that… and we know it could be.”
― Richard Gleaves, Sleepy Hollow: General of the Dead

“Beyond the shades and spectres and unquiet motes that brood behind attic shadows, houses are haunted by time. They become weighted with it, as by long seasons of heavy snow.”
― Richard Gleaves, Salem: Blood to Drink

“Houses are haunted by time and blood. Every house has known blood.”
― Richard Gleaves, Salem: Blood to Drink

“Houses are haunted by memories, as the elderly are.”
― Richard Gleaves, Salem: Blood to Drink

“Back and to the left,” said the woman, nodding. “Back and to the left. And ninety-five percent of the brain matter from the head shot was found in the area behind the limo—there across the street.” “You mean the Harper fragment,” said a kid with a bushy hipster beard and ball cap, in a tone of condescension. Oh,”
― Richard Gleaves, Under the Grassy Knoll: a JFK novella

“Houses are haunted by more than ghosts.”
― Richard Gleaves, Salem: Blood to Drink

“Yes, he wanted all the magic he could find. He”
― Richard Gleaves, Sleepy Hollow: Rise Headless and Ride

“tell her what? That he suffered from post-phantasmal stress disorder? There’s no pill for that.”
― Richard Gleaves, Sleepy Hollow: Bridge of Bones

“Family members clear the air with serious conversations. Business partners write letters. Potential friends clear the air with banter—they use silliness to smudge away the bad spirits.”
― Richard Gleaves, Sleepy Hollow: Bridge of Bones

“She laughed. “I’ve never understood how the holiday of love ended up being in the middle of the ugliest month. Why not in the spring? When people want to hold hands and stroll?” Hadewych slipped his hands in his pockets. “Maybe the man who invented it was single and in a bad mood.”
― Richard Gleaves, Sleepy Hollow: Bridge of Bones

“Having adventures is never a waste of time,” she said. “Sitting on your butt is.”
― Richard Gleaves, Sleepy Hollow: Rise Headless and Ride

“We always jump, you know. People can’t help it. They yell Geronimo, they kiss the girl on the stoop. They step onstage, into the ring, onto the dance floor, into battle. They chip away stone to find the treasure in the tomb. They risk curses and dark magic and failure and fraud. They risk life, and jump. We just can’t, can’t, help it.”
― Richard Gleaves, Sleepy Hollow: Rise Headless and Ride

“Jason adopted a Darth Vader voice. “I find your lack of testosterone disturbing.”
― Richard Gleaves, Sleepy Hollow: Bridge of Bones

“His grandmother found him at a playground near the river, fallen in the dust with his shoulder against the slope of a teeter-totter, the other end riderless, suspended. He saw her trudging up the hill. She looked twice her usual size in her winter coat, and frightening.”
― Richard Gleaves, Sleepy Hollow: Rise Headless and Ride

“Children wandered the streets below, dressed as witches and skeletons and beings with magical powers. Yes. All Hallow’s Eve. So innocent, so trusting: a night when evil is just a game and children roam the night with certainty – or hope – that nothing monstrous exists.”
― Richard Gleaves, Sleepy Hollow: Rise Headless and Ride

“Corruption, earth and worms Shall but refine my flesh Till my triumphant spirit comes To put it on afresh.”
― Richard Gleaves, Sleepy Hollow: Bridge of Bones

“He deserves everything that’s coming to him. But he would have died thinking himself a victim. And that’s the horror of evil men.”
― Richard Gleaves, Sleepy Hollow: General of the Dead