Scott Carson > Quotes

“Good decisions often mark the death of wild dreams.”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“She looked the same as she had on the day Gillian last saw her, only without the same emotion in her eyes, the sense of life. Looking into her eyes was like looking at Christmas lights in broad daylight when they seemed empty and foolish and sad, before darkness settled and restored their purpose.”
― Scott Carson, The Chill

“It’s so easy to know so much, he would tell us, gesturing around the library. It’s all right there, and it’s free.”
― Scott Carson, Lost Man's Lane

“If you spend enough time on black ice, does an illusion of control return?”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“The best navigator in the world couldn’t guarantee you open water. It was one thing to chart a course and another to know it was clear.”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“Fiction or fact is actually up to the reader. The right novel at the right time might tell a deeper truth than a biography.”
― Scott Carson, Lost Man's Lane

“Everyone craved invention and innovation, but it was maintenance that kept empires alive.”
― Scott Carson, The Chill

“Because those forces don’t truly work together. They only seem to. That’s the great trick of engineering. We take opposing forces and balance them. Things in balance seem to have a nice, peaceful harmony. They seem cooperative. But that’s the illusion. Those forces are always at war. They’re always seeking an advantage. Day by day, minute by minute, drip by drip, forces of nature fight to dominate.”
― Scott Carson, The Chill

“It is, I believe, the very nature of man. As surely as Christ turned water into wine, so can men turn power into poison. This they shall continue to do until He has seen enough, I’m afraid. Some days, I hope that He has already seen enough. Then I pray for forgiveness for such dark thoughts.”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“Grackles are disliked by many people, often viewed as a nuisance, and yet they are extraordinary creatures,”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“Rest in peace, Tom Petty.”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“This piece-of-shit asshole was gone from my life and yet still had a hold on it. Because you can remove the man but not the memories. I was sleeping with a knife next to the bed when I slept at all. To get that far, I was taking more Ambien than was healthy. I’d wake up groggy and sick and have to fight through my mornings, then come home and do it all over again. The asshole still had control over me, even though he was gone. I couldn’t stand that thought. And people were advocating therapy, you know, conventional approaches, but what I wanted was for him to be gone. As if he’d never existed.”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“Home is always more about the people than the place.”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“I slept as if it were an act against my own will, slept as if paralyzed, slept as if held down by strong hands. At some point, I realized dimly that the lamp was off and that I didn’t remember turning it off. My eyes would flutter open and the shadowed room would present itself and then my eyes would close again. None of it felt like a product of my own intention or effort.”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“Facebook feels like a bunch of people flexing in the mirror,”
― Scott Carson, Lost Man's Lane

“When I think about the definition of what it means to be a grown man, I can’t come up with a better visual than Jerry Flanders on the night I ran to him with news of the rattlesnake. Jerry, wanting nothing more than to go back to bed but knowing he couldn’t. He was no less afraid of snakes than I was and hardly enthused about the prospect of leaving his house in the night to find one, but I’d run to him for help, and he had nobody else to turn to. The difference between boy and man. Some night you’re going to need to be the one who carries the shovel.”
― Scott Carson, Lost Man's Lane

“today’s news is forgotten tomorrow, but folklore is forever.”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“strange phrase, yet one that felt perfect for the task. Like”
― Scott Carson, Lost Man's Lane

“The scream I would have uttered then would have been unlike any sound I’d ever made before, if only I could have made it.”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“We stood like that for a while. Renee pressed her face into my chest and I held her even though she’d gone very still. There was nothing romantic to the moment, and yet there was something deeply intimate to it. A simple but profound need for shared warmth.”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“was”
― Scott Carson, Lost Man's Lane

“The things we believe don’t necessarily overlap with the things that are true.”
― Scott Carson, Lost Man's Lane

“Anyone who held her middle finger in the air for too long began to feel the absurdity of it after a while. You were no longer making a point; you were making a fool of yourself.”
― Scott Carson, The Chill