Jonathan Janz > Quotes

“This thing shook me, Jason,” he said, his voice lower still. “Like every man, I’ve questioned my faith at times… especially after Ariana died. There are things I’m still not sure about. Like how can you hold it against somebody that he was born in a third-world country? If someone’s never heard of Jesus, how can we expect a person to believe in him? And then we…” He made a pained face, ran a palm over his stubbly cheeks. “…we put distance between ourselves and others. We pick out differences between people and we amplify them and act like they’re lost and we know the answers, and the truth is, we’re all lost. We’ve all sinned.”
― Jonathan Janz, Exorcist Falls

“watched after her sourly and considered correcting her grammar—it wasn’t could care less, it was couldn’t care less. It was an error that always irked me.”
― Jonathan Janz, Children of the Dark

“There’s no such thing as a nonreader. Just people who haven’t found the right books.”
― Jonathan Janz, Veil

“Nobody cared if you plagiarized in the third grade. All”
― Jonathan Janz, Children of the Dark

“Would God I could awaken For a dream I know not how, And my soul is sorely shaken Lest an evil step be taken,— Lest the dead who is forsaken May not be happy now. Edgar Allan Poe “Bridal Ballad”
― Jonathan Janz, The Dismembered

“Father Sutherland lowered the aluminum bat, looking like the holiest man to ever win the Triple Crown.”
― Jonathan Janz, Exorcist Falls

“Because somehow, I knew a great many things about the Watkinses I’d never known before. I knew that despite their money, their house was an unhappy one. I knew Chris’s dad had struck Chris’s mom before, and I knew it had been covered up. I was sure Mr. Watkins would hurt his wife again.”
― Jonathan Janz, Children of the Dark

“They’ve botched this investigation, haven’t they?” I said. Detective Wood glanced at me. “That’s like saying Carl Padgett is a mildly dangerous jaywalker. This investigation has been a disaster.”
― Jonathan Janz, Children of the Dark

“We destroy the present while forgetting the past.”
― Jonathan Janz, The Dismembered

“Those guys despise us.” “They do,” she agreed. “I suspect it’s because you’re smarter than they are. You and Chris are better athletes too.”
― Jonathan Janz, Children of the Dark

“As they sometimes do in the small hours of the night”
― Jonathan Janz, Veil

“George went in first and got paddled so hard that my”
― Jonathan Janz, Children of the Dark

“Watch your tongue,” Cavanaugh said, his eyes deadly cold. But my wrath had come unbottled, and there was no way to stopper it again. “‘Boy’?” I said. “I thought they only talked like that in shitty movies.”
― Jonathan Janz, Children of the Dark

“No virtue breeds as much trouble as honesty.”
― Jonathan Janz, Veil

“houses. Other than the treehouse, it was where we spent the most time. So. since I had an intimate knowledge of the graveyard, I figured I’d have a major advantage if I cut through it.”
― Jonathan Janz, Children of the Dark

“Civility is unnatural”
― Jonathan Janz, The Dismembered

“skin, the long, slender neck,”
― Jonathan Janz, The Dismembered

“Flynn and Wood were gaping toward the Hollow. Hubbard looked like he wanted his mommy.”
― Jonathan Janz, Children of the Dark

“Why did such a good-hearted, loving girl get treated like dirt?”
― Jonathan Janz, Children of the Dark

“Worried about her? Hell. You’d give her a piggyback ride to the limo, man. Who do you think you’re fooling?”
― Jonathan Janz, The Dark Game

“He always called me “Champ” and mussed my hair, a habit that suggested that the sum of his experience with children had come from watching crappy movies. I”
― Jonathan Janz, Children of the Dark

“Violet whirled in her seat. “Go to hell, Jimmy.” “Ah, we’re here,” Hubert said.”
― Jonathan Janz, The Dismembered

“Mia, on the other hand, possessed a quality that got men’s attention whether they were her age or old enough to be her father. It made me want to protect her, of course, but more than that, it made me want to kick someone’s ass.”
― Jonathan Janz, Children of the Dark

“it was her uncanny resemblance to my ex-wife. The supple pink skin, the long, slender neck,”
― Jonathan Janz, The Dismembered