Bill Beverly > Quotes

“Flight, they called it. One part fear, one part the blindest excitement you’d ever known. It freed you from time, from who you were or the matter of what you’d done.”
― Bill Beverly, Dodgers

“The man got up and went into the backyard. After a few minutes Sony checked on him and found him asleep, trembling, fighting something inside.”
― Bill Beverly, Dodgers

“The week was a wound he hadn’t even steeled himself to look at yet. Yet he felt it bleed.”
― Bill Beverly, Dodgers

“Walter gave up a knife—a Korean type for street fights. So light and springy it would shiver inside you.”
― Bill Beverly, Dodgers

“He wondered if he was far enough. He felt far. He felt lost. But if there were such a thing as far enough, it wasn’t a place you could walk to.”
― Bill Beverly, Dodgers

“East watched the woman. She had a spell about her, like her time in this world was spent arranging things in another.”
― Bill Beverly, Dodgers

“The world would have its way with you. You and your plan. There was only that lesson to learn.”
― Bill Beverly, Dodgers

“Unlike the boys, who came from homes with mothers or from dens of other boys, East slept alone, somewhere no one knew. He had been at the old house before them, and he had seen things they had never seen. He had seen a reverend shot on the walk, a woman jump off a roof. He had seen a helicopter crash into trees and a man, out of his mind, pick up a downed power cable and stand, illuminated. He had seen the police come down, and still the house continued on.”
― Bill Beverly, Dodgers

“Women had sense. Men could be warned. But kids, they were gonna see for themselves.”
― Bill Beverly, Dodgers

“But you could be wrong about that. You could be wrong about anything.”
― Bill Beverly, Dodgers

“But stronger than their feelings for Hosea or telling the truth was a principle: Know when you’re fucking with someone. Know who you’re fucking with. Know that things have their cost.”
― Bill Beverly, Dodgers