Bentley Little > Quotes

“Julian tried to keep a pleasant smile on his face, though already it felt strained. He was uncomfortable with people who used the word blessed as a part of their everyday speech. The implication was that God was intervening in the minutiae of their lives, hanging around and helping them with their jobs or children or household chores as though He had nothing better to do.
Maybe it was true, Julian thought wryly. Maybe that was why there were wars and murders and earthquakes and hurricanes. God was too busy helping real estate agents find new listings to deal with those other issues.”
― Bentley Little, The Haunted

“A light wind blew through here that carried with it scents of sadness and loss, not recognizable odors but smells that corresponded to nothing, chimerical fragrances able to evoke melancholic memories.”
― Bentley Little, The Vanishing

“Her last call, at midnight, had been the worst. "I'll pull your cock out of your asshole," she'd said, and for some reason her voice at that moment had reminded him of his mother's.”
― Bentley Little, The Walking

“This can't be constitutional," he said. "This is America, damn it. We still have freedom of speech here.”
― Bentley Little, The Store

“remember: not all that is fiction is fictional, and not all that is true is transparent.”
― Bentley Little, The Best of Horror Library: Volumes 1-5

“No one said a word; it was as if they were waiting for me to retract my question. Jan's hand found mine and held it.
"What the hell is this? A wake?" My grandpa came out of the house carrying a tray of buns.”
― Bentley Little

“Everyone today is so fragmented. This isn’t a country anymore. It’s a collection of tribes, all competing with each other for jobs, money, media attention. When I was young, we were all Americans. Back then, we did what we had to, or what we could, to make this a better nation. We did what was right, what was moral.”
― Bentley Little, The Store

“A hush fell over the room as the man in black stepped up to the podium.”
― Bentley Little, The Bank

“He was dropped off directly in front of the Black Tower.”
― Bentley Little, The Store

“Whistling past the graveyard.”
― Bentley Little, DMV

“anyone in horror’s path is irrevocably altered.”
― Bentley Little, The Best of Horror Library: Volumes 1-5

“The Night Managers.”
― Bentley Little, The Store

“Human beings' capacity to adjust to almost anything was supposed to be one of their greatest virtues, but it was also one of their greatest weaknesses. It rendered them compliant, allowed them to be exploited.”
― Bentley Little, The Store

“There's nothing scarier than groupthink.”
― Bentley Little, The Association

“and the last shot of the report was of King getting into a chauffeur-driven limousine in front of the black tower.”
― Bentley Little, The Store

“My father saw him one time. We live in mexico, on the farm, and Father went to feed the horses. At night. Little man was standing there giving hay to the horses. And Father watch and he came and he told Mother, 'Jedushka Di Muvedushka feeding the horses'. He don't get scared, nothing. In the morning we go look, the horses' hair all braided. So Beautiful! All their hair braided.”
― Bentley Little

“Newman King was a fictional figurehead, a made-up character.”
― Bentley Little, The Store

“No one hated him more than his fans.”
― Bentley Little, DMV

“They lived in a Wikipedia world, where knowledge was no longer required and only the ability to access it mattered.”
― Bentley Little, The Academy

“History wasn’t a straight line, it was a circle.”
― Bentley Little, DMV

“There were so many ways a person could die.”
― Bentley Little, Gloria

“He could wait, because hatred is patient.”
― Bentley Little, The Best of Horror Library: Volumes 1-5

“If they were both mute, they could have a happy life.”
― Bentley Little, The House

“But it seemed to her that people these days, even in small towns, perhaps especially in small towns, had lost whatever sense of tolerance had enabled America to forge a unified nation out of the diverse peoples that coexisted within its borders.”
― Bentley Little, The Haunted

“bought their groceries at Safeway and shopped for everything else at The Store.”
― Bentley Little, The Haunted

“It was a strange facet of human nature, but horror was much more frightening on a small scale than a large one.”
― Bentley Little, The House

“his shoulders slumped as though he were a human-shaped balloon that had just lost half of its air.”
― Bentley Little, The Influence

“was in room 212 instead of room 215.”
― Bentley Little, The Collection

“There is a sort of instantaneous antipathy between people who don’t get along, an unspoken recognition acknowledged by both parties,”
― Bentley Little, The Ignored

“and he picked up on the nineteenth ring, obviously”
― Bentley Little, Walking Alone: Short Stories