Robert Ellis > Quotes

“We call it a coincidence. Three thousand years ago, they called it magic. Two thousand years ago, it was called a miracle.”
― Robert Ellis, The Love Killings

“She looked fresh, as if she’d slept the whole night through. She”
― Robert Ellis, The Dead Room

“The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it—this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.” —Henry James”
― Robert Ellis, City of Echoes

“I never mentioned anything about my family, but we talked about narcissism because everyone you hurt was a narcissist. He said that it’s reached the point of becoming an epidemic. Everyone is out for themselves and couldn’t care less who they hurt or what it takes to get what they want. It’s something short of being a human being. It’s a mental illness that wipes out evolution in favor of the knuckle dragger. He said that most shrinks won’t even take them as patients because their disease can’t be cured. They like being animals. They enjoy it. That’s why I wonder why you spared my father. Why didn’t you do everybody a favor and just kill him?” A”
― Robert Ellis, The Love Killings

“that”
― Robert Ellis, The Dead Room

“You’re weird, kid,” he said, his voice booming. “Goddamn it, you’re weird. You give new meaning to the phrase odd man out.” Cook’s”
― Robert Ellis, The Love Killings

“Andrews and”
― Robert Ellis, The Dead Room

“Schools of minnows, he thought. Who cared if they lived or died? He”
― Robert Ellis, The Love Killings

“His fingers were trembling. He felt that cold breeze working the back of his neck again. Halfway across the sidewalk, he realized that he’d just stepped out of the warmth and into the wind.”
― Robert Ellis, City of Echoes

“He dreamed about what life must have been like before everything became crowded and people didn’t matter anymore. Schools”
― Robert Ellis, The Love Killings

“be caught”
― Robert Ellis, The Dead Room

“You’re going places, all right. The first stop’s a town called nowhere.” She”
― Robert Ellis, The Love Killings

“The only good thing about Mr. Andolini was that he grew Concord grapes and was a generous old fuck. Andrew had to give him that.”
― Robert Ellis, The Love Killings

“When a dead man's on the other end of the line, I guess you've gotta take the call.”
― Robert Ellis, The Lost Witness

“Half of them were so stupid that they ate three meals a day with their hands. The other half were so full of themselves that they had to be hand-fed on silver spoons or they’d die of starvation. What”
― Robert Ellis, The Love Killings