Vincent Zandri > Quotes

“You fell off the tree of fucked-up-weird and slammed every branch on the way down.”
― Vincent Zandri, Moonlight Falls

“Maybe I didn't know her as well as I might have wanted. But I can tell you this: love mattered a great deal to Scarlet Montana. I think it must have mattered to Jake too. Because if love hadn't been important to them, they wouldn't have fallen to pieces when it suddenly abandoned them.”
― Vincent Zandri, Moonlight Falls

“Because when it comes to memories, what counts is not accuracy, but the feelings they call up.”
― Vincent Zandri, The Innocent

“Our world expands or shrinks in direct proportion to our courage,”
― Vincent Zandri, The Shroud Key

“You shouldn’t expect a thank-you in life just for doing the right thing.”
― Vincent Zandri, Everything Burns

“What is it that draws us back to the broken places? Maybe”
― Vincent Zandri, Everything Burns

“The trick was learning to live without the grief and without the guilt. The trick was to create a life worth living, a life no longer conscious of death.”
― Vincent Zandri, The Innocent

“Faith,” I said. “What’s that?” “It’s believing in something you can’t see, hear, or feel.”
― Vincent Zandri, The Concrete Pearl

“Don’t be thanking me,” he says. “You shouldn’t expect a thank-you in life just for doing the right thing. That’s something the politicians will never understand. Priests too.”
― Vincent Zandri, Everything Burns

“inside the Honda, shutting the”
― Vincent Zandri, Everything Burns

“I was doing just fine on my own before the old man died and Lisa came storming back into my life. I was writing, building my audience, travelling, not thinking about fire, not thinking about Lisa as much as I used to. David Bourenhem was of zero concern to me. I was free. I’ll say it again: I . . . was . . . free. But now the old paranoia has raised its ugly, scarred head again. The paranoia, the obsessions, the bad habits. The fire. They’re all sneaking back into my life.”
― Vincent Zandri, Everything Burns

“translucent plastic bag collected the catheter drippings.”
― Vincent Zandri, The Remains

“It seemed strange in a way. Only a little more than an hour before, I was about to be killed by a homicidal maniac. Now I was going out for pancakes. I recalled one of my mother’s cherished sayings: God works in mysterious ways.”
― Vincent Zandri, The Remains

“Just enough for a twelve-pack of beer, a pack of smokes, and a Bic lighter. Not exactly the breakfast of champions, but the perfect recipe for a man who is speedily losing his shit.”
― Vincent Zandri, Everything Burns

“You can’t give your love over entirely when you are still in love with another.”
― Vincent Zandri, Everything Burns

“We have a saying in Italy. Once a toy is broken, you can’t fix it. You must toss it into the furnace and find a new one.”
― Vincent Zandri, Everything Burns

“sometimes, the past should not only be forgotten, it should be destroyed.”
― Vincent Zandri, The Remains

“Whenever Lisa kisses me I feel like I’m levitating. It’s a feeling I was never able to forget when we were apart and something I will never get sick of for as long as I live. Maybe even longer.”
― Vincent Zandri, Everything Burns

“When life gives you lemons, you put the lemons down and go burn down a building.” —Unidentified Pyromaniac”
― Vincent Zandri, Everything Burns

“It’s while Burly Cop drives me home that I’m reminded of Miller’s question about how Bourenhem was able to get into the house if the locks had been changed and he no longer had a key. Like I indicated to the detective, it’s possible I left the front door unlocked when I drove to the medical center. For certain I might have left it unlocked later on, when I went to confront David at his apartment. I also might have done the same when I went to visit Lisa at her parents’ house. I wasn’t acting in my right mind on any of those occasions.”
― Vincent Zandri, Everything Burns

“Does the man ever take any time off? Maybe he’s a cyborg.”
― Vincent Zandri, Everything Burns

“The striker on a matchbox is constructed of 25 percent powdered glass, 50 percent red phosphorus, and some other things like black carbon. Most people give it little thought, but matchbox construction is a science all its own.”
― Vincent Zandri, Everything Burns

“You can’t stand having people around you, but then you go completely nuts when you’re left all alone.”
― Vincent Zandri, Everything Burns

“We fell back into a silence that was neither uncomfortable nor comfortable”
― Vincent Zandri, Everything Burns

“You shouldn’t expect a thank-you in life just for doing the right thing. That’s something the politicians will never understand.”
― Vincent Zandri, Everything Burns

“Of course, it comes to me, finally, that I’m not really dreaming. That I am actually moving through this tunnel, although not of my own power. Without”
― Vincent Zandri, The Ashes

“I screamed without making a sound. I sobbed without shedding a tear. I died, though my heart beat on.”
― Vincent Zandri, The Remains

“I can’t remember my PIN number for my debit card or my Facebook password. The digital age sucks sometimes.”
― Vincent Zandri, Everything Burns

“couldn’t get to them in time. It was just too hot. Your mother . . . I warned her about smoking in bed. I told her what would happen.” “Did Mom start the fire? Did she burn my brothers?” “She didn’t mean to start it, Reece,” he cries. “But now she’s killed them all.”
― Vincent Zandri, Everything Burns

“going”
― Vincent Zandri, Everything Burns