Eli Cranor > Quotes

“Bradshaw’s threats, Timmons’s questions, Billy’s missing family, any and all worries from before are absolved between the lines of the football field. It should be illegal, Trent thinks, the power the game has over men, a blinding, burning feeling—a drug—that’s what football is. And for the winners there are no warning labels, no side effects or hangovers, nothing except the pure, undiluted knowledge that you are superior to your fellow man.”
― Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

“The boys gather around their coach. They're breathing heavy, pupils big and black like drops of ink, a high they'll try and return to the rest of their lives.”
― Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

“What could be worse than death?”
“If you don’t know already, then don’t go asking.”
― Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

“He was drunk, and even NyQuil make a man brave if he drink enough of it.”
― Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

“But I’m here to tell you, all those choices you make, every little dumbass thing you do, follows you on through to the end.”
― Eli Cranor, Ozark Dogs

“Maybe there were other jobs, but who has time to look for a job? A new job meant change, and for those who lived month to month, day to day, change was never easy. Change meant paperwork and sideways glances. Change was scarier than hard work.”
― Eli Cranor, Broiler