Jack Benton > Quotes

“here. I mean, we’ve been married twenty-seven years, and he’s only ever driven me through it a handful of times”
― Jack Benton, The Man by the Sea

“picaresque”
― Jack Benton, The Man by the Sea

“Her face was lined but kindly, like a familiar towel.”
― Jack Benton, The Man by the Sea

“Photographs always told more than the sum of their parts, if you only knew how to look.”
― Jack Benton, When the Wind Blows

“My own mother was much the same,’ she said. ‘That’s how I knew. Nothing you do is ever right, no achievement is ever good enough. Children grow up with a need to be praised, to impress their parents, and if every achievement is lambasted or denigrated, they quickly develop a sense of disillusionment. They go the opposite way, either outwardly into rebellion, or inwardly into depression.”
― Jack Benton, Eight Days

“Once, hunting for the trail of destruction left by a sudden bender had been an almost daily event. He had woken up with bruises a dozen times, wondering who had hit him, who he had hit. Where he had lost his stuff. Who he had called up in the middle of the night, blathering at like an idiot, or worse, ranting, berating. Who had now blacklisted his number. Who would never again let him inside their home. I can’t keep living like this.”
― Jack Benton, Slow Train