Aaron Dries > Quotes

“This isn’t how things were supposed to happen. I was supposed to be me.

Not this.”
― Aaron Dries, Where the Dead Go to Die

“But lurking behind every summer was a fall just waiting to happen.”
― Aaron Dries, The Fallen Boys

“There are no gods, only teeth.”
― Aaron Dries, Dirty Heads

“Behind every summer is a fall just waiting to happen.”
― Aaron Dries, The Fallen Boys

“Darkness fell, gathering sin.”
― Aaron Dries, The Fallen Boys

“Things you thought were unforgettable slip away. You don’t get over loss like that. You just get better at dealing with it.”
― Aaron Dries, Dirty Heads

“There's no sadder sight than that of a child's coffin.”
― Aaron Dries, The Fallen Boys

“she hoped she never reached that point. Let her heart never grow that hard.”
― Aaron Dries, Where the Dead Go to Die

“I'm waltzing with the wrecking ball
'Cause this ain't my home anymore.”
― Aaron Dries, The Fallen Boys

“Michael Delaney used to be fat. Not puppy-padding fat—bursting-frankfurts-in-a-boiling-pot fat. He remembered gym class and swimming lessons. All of the thin guys who could be divided into one of two groups: those who looked but did not comment and those who looked and commented, with enthusiasm...
Fat kids are like alcoholics; they always have excuses.”
― Aaron Dries, House of Sighs

“Sin is like mold—the longer it lives, the blacker it becomes. And spores can’t be avoided. Never.”
― Aaron Dries, The Fallen Boys

“What was happiness when people you didn’t even know hated you? Where did you fit in? Why do you exist? So, maybe, you shouldn’t exist. Maybe I shouldn’t exist.”
― Aaron Dries, Dirty Heads

“This movie was about magic. So, who was the magician?”
― Aaron Dries, Dirty Heads

“Bad things don’t happen to people like us. We were normal. We were us.”
― Aaron Dries, Dirty Heads

“Marshall wished he knew what to call her, wished he could memorialize her somehow. There was dignity in eulogies, in little ribbons tied to trees, in a name.”
― Aaron Dries, The Fallen Boys

“We teeter on the brink of chaos every day, regardless of the tightly-wound control we think we have over our lives. Beneath everyone—himself included—there lurked the potential to do terrible things. This potential sometimes manifested itself, purged itself, stretched its spindly spidery legs, in a number of ways. And it wore many faces along the way. But most people hold true. They don’t tap into the well. This was different.”
― Aaron Dries, House of Sighs

“We're nothing. We're dust.”
― Aaron Dries, The Fallen Boys

“Got me a wayward girl, cute as a bee. See-sawin’ across the universe and ending up with me…”
― Aaron Dries, The Fallen Boys

“Heath,” Tina said without a trace of animosity or condescension, just gentle sadness I didn’t know how to resolve. “I listened to your tape, and I think you might be gay.”
― Aaron Dries, Dirty Heads

“Nobody wants to be alone. Sure, we fill our lives with people, faces that come and go, we love a lot only to lose more in the end, and if we’re smart—really smart—we take our victories where we get them. But beneath our skins, we siren.”
― Aaron Dries

“Starke entered his house a detective, slipped off his shoes and became a husband and father. It was five in the morning. The world was blue. He went to the refrigerator and opened the door, looking for answers to mysteries he would never comprehend. So he closed it and settled for water instead.”
― Aaron Dries, The Fallen Boys

“Every day has its destiny. The cracking icicle that's almost ready to fall. A branch weighed by too much snow, soon to break. Clouds that try and try to hold in their water, only to fail, and in doing so fulfill their meaning in the world. An architecture of inevitability, that this was fated to be. The destiny of this day: Bloodshed. It would begin with a single drop.”
― Aaron Dries, Where the Dead Go to Die

“What was happiness when people you didn’t even know hated you?”
― Aaron Dries, Dirty Heads

“Claire knew school was hard for him, that his classmates could be cruel. But wasn’t that cruelty part of the package? The challenge was to fight through it and emerge tougher on the other side. She didn’t want to tell him what all parents knew yet never voiced: You’ve just got to get through this, ’cause it only gets harder the older you get. Adolescence was nearsighted. Her attempts at explaining that the rough patches would fade and all he aspired to be would come true given time fell on deaf ears.”
― Aaron Dries, The Fallen Boys

“Yes, this was a haunted place. He had read
about certain materials absorbing the sounds of their surroundings like divots in a vinyl recording, and now, as the sun started to dip below the horizon, this concept chilled him more than the creeping cold. Put a needle to the mortar of these walls and listen to the screams. His own would be among them.”
― Aaron Dries, The Fallen Boys