Jeff Menapace > Quotes

“Our minds are computers, and whether we’re aware of it or not, they usually catch everything. Problem is, our computers are run by morons—us.”
― Jeff Menapace, Side Effects

“Either way, it fucking sucked. Either way, I was fucked. Either way, it fucking sucked that I was fucked.”
― Jeff Menapace, Hair of the Bitch

“(the world being the pussified place it was these days),”
― Jeff Menapace, Caleb: Atonement

“us at a dinner party that you’ve heard a thousand times before. You want me to stop running the lawnmower and look over at you, hard at work in the garden—stained jeans; dirty hands; sweaty face—and hear me tell you that I love you, and that you’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen in my life, even though I’d said it just ten minutes before. “You want to hear these things again and again because they make you feel safe and cherished. And that’s something you only realize when those words aren’t spoken for a while. “So my repetition may appear to be a necessity, but it’s always genuine, always sincere. And I’ll never get tired of telling you. And I’ll never let you feel what it’s like to miss those words. “So I’ll say it again; and my sincerity with this one is stronger than anything my soul can possibly manage. I love you with all my heart,”
― Jeff Menapace, Bad Games

“Smells nice in here,” she said. “We missing an asshole?”
― Jeff Menapace, Cliche: Episodes 1-3

“is that alcohol is a depressant; it brings you up, but boy does it also bring you down. And when you hate who you are, those feelings of inhibition that are so joyous the night before come back at you like a punch in the gut the next day for fear that you might have unknowingly let someone into your pathetic little world. And yet for some reason, I was willing to swap a temporary high for those inevitable depths of depression, and I hadn’t the slightest fucking clue why. It was the American way I suppose. The get-rich-quick way, as opposed to the long, arduous route. Oh well—fuck”
― Jeff Menapace, Hair of the Bitch

“So I’ll say it again; and my sincerity with this one is stronger than anything my soul can possibly manage. I love you with all my heart, Amy. And I’d die a million deaths to protect you and our children. You call me your rock—well you guys are mine.” Amy started to cry. She stood up and walked to her husband’s chair, sat on his lap and hugged him tight. “I love you so much, honey.” She kissed him hard, her nose and tears wet against his face. “When the sheriff gets here, we take him to that cabin and have him arrest those guys. We then wait for Norm and the kids, pack, and be on the road and back in our own beds before we know it. Far, far away from here.” He kissed her. “God damn right, baby.”
― Jeff Menapace, Bad Games

“Blame others and the world itself for one’s problems, thus justifying a resort to evil because of the “unfair hand” one was dealt? Justifiably play the stupid fucking martyr?”
― Jeff Menapace, Caleb: Return to Noodle

“the two shook hands with their eyes.”
― Jeff Menapace, Bad Games: The Complete Series

“Dan likened children being killed in books to politics and religion being discussed in a bar. Just don’t.”
― Jeff Menapace, Wildlife

“BAD GAMES: HELLBENT”
― Jeff Menapace, Hellbent

“It had been like a dark room with a solitary television going thus far in their journey—inconsistent lighting with no discernible pattern. Sometimes good, sometimes dark, sometimes a maddening combination of both, alternating in quick succession, just as your eyes tried to accustom to one or the other.”
― Jeff Menapace, Wildlife

“That was the effect alcohol had on me: it was liquid hypocrisy. My cynical demeanor would blissfully melt away the more inebriated I became. It injected me with a feeling I wished I could bottle and consume every day without fear of hangover or deeper depression. And trust me, that last one is huge.”
― Jeff Menapace, Hair of the Bitch

“So they followed it, a slow, cautious hobble through what most eyes and minds would deem a dark and treacherous land chockfull of nature’s booby traps, with teeth and without.”
― Jeff Menapace, Wildlife

“You want to hear me tell a funny and romantic story about us at a dinner party that you’ve heard a thousand times before. You want me to stop running the lawnmower and look over at you, hard at work in the garden—stained jeans; dirty hands; sweaty face—and hear me tell you that I love you, and that you’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen in my life, even though I’d said it just ten minutes before. “You want to hear these things again and again because they make you feel safe and cherished. And that’s something you only realize when those words aren’t spoken for a while. “So my repetition may appear to be a necessity, but it’s always genuine, always sincere. And I’ll never get tired of telling you. And I’ll never let you feel what it’s like to miss those words.”
― Jeff Menapace, Bad Games

“He patted his own back with a little smirk.”
― Jeff Menapace, Wildlife