Adam Cesare > Quotes

“I . . .” I’m not your sweetheart, motherfucker.”
― Adam Cesare, Clown in a Cornfield

“Quinn looked to the horizon as the cornstalks swayed with the breeze. The corn itself could have been waving hello, or it could have been breathing.”
― Adam Cesare, Clown in a Cornfield

“The bones of a nice house were there—the front porch and its deck swing were charming—but what was on those bones . . . damn.”
― Adam Cesare, Clown in a Cornfield

“Our bodies are the most permanent of Trapper Keepers.”
― Adam Cesare

“Sometimes déjà vu wasn’t déjà vu. Sometimes it was just the same shit happening again and again until it drove you insane.”
― Adam Cesare, Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives

“My stomach twitches as I type out the smiley face, cuteness gives me indigestion, but I read somewhere that people like that shit,”
― Adam Cesare, The First One You Expect

“You tell people they’re right, tell ’em what they want to hear, you listen—really listen, not pretend listen—but then the whole time you’re doing that listening, you’re pushing the boundaries forward. Reshaping morality. Drawing a new line in the sand while nobody else is watching, then wiping away the old one. And the whole time you know . . . You know where it’s all leading.”
― Adam Cesare, Clown in a Cornfield

“Janet shrugged, as if she had no idea why any of her dumbass friends did the dumbass things they did.”
― Adam Cesare, Clown in a Cornfield

“It was an echoing susurrus, reverberating toward them down the elevator shaft. It was an ominous sound. There was a fullness to it that triggered a cascade of pinpricks down the base of Quinn’s neck. The car rose and the fuzzy, amorphous sound resolved into a familiar bassline. And then voices. And then . . . wolves howling? “That’s Thriller,” Quinn said.”
― Adam Cesare, Frendo Lives

“It was all pretend horror. Safe horror. There was something to that. Therapeutic screams.”
― Adam Cesare, Frendo Lives

“The more we try to change about our lives, the harder some things cling. Usually the most embarrassing aspects.”
― Adam Cesare, The Summer Job

“Hands on the cool ground, beginning to retch, that was when Quinn noticed what was fluttering down around her— Hay? She picked up her hand, stared at her palm in the moonlight, her lifeline cut by a sliver of golden hay.”
― Adam Cesare, Clown in a Cornfield

“My bullshit sense is tingling. Where did you find this, Pete?” “My uncle.” “By any chance an uncle who thinks the president is a lizard person?”
― Adam Cesare, Frendo Lives

“It wasn’t that Allison was a great liar, just that everything she said carried this aura of insincerity that called the veracity of every statement she made into suspicion.”
― Adam Cesare, The Summer Job

“Yeah, well, I’ve decided a change will do me good,” Quinn said, not realizing that was the attitude she wanted to take until she’d said it.”
― Adam Cesare, Clown in a Cornfield

“The thing that you start believing when you’re on movie sets so often, is that everything around you is complete make-believe.”
― Adam Cesare, Tribesmen

“filmmaking is artful lying,”
― Adam Cesare, The First One You Expect

“The girl, whose name he never cared to get, disappeared on her walk of shame. Reluctant heels clopped across icy marble tiling as she basked in the kind of lavish excess she’d hopefully never see again.”
― Adam Cesare, All-Night Terror

“Blind anger was just wasted energy.”
― Adam Cesare, Frendo Lives

“It was all part of Mercy House’s deluxe treatment: We’ll keep you so doped up you won’t even realize that nobody remembers or loves you!”
― Adam Cesare, Mercy House

“Standing in the middle of the street, Quinn looked to the horizon, as if she could go on tiptoes and see the Comcast building back home.”
― Adam Cesare, Clown in a Cornfield

“Claire had a theory that the abbreviation of definitely stemmed from everyone’s inability to spell it correctly. It always got spellchecked into defiantly.”
― Adam Cesare, The Summer Job

“Chaos isn’t the same as evil because Chaos has got consistency. If there’s order on one side and the Devil on the other, he’s the element of life that introduces unpredictability.”
― Adam Cesare, The Summer Job

“FRENDO LIVES.”
― Adam Cesare, Frendo Lives

“Never discount the gullibility of people on the internet, though. Janky production values and all, there were people who believed. Or at least wanted to believe, needed that outrage in their lives like a handrail.”
― Adam Cesare, Frendo Lives

“The fact that history bent toward progress, no matter how hard the assholes tried pushing back.”
― Adam Cesare, Clown in a Cornfield

“There, painted on the side of the factory, was a clown.”
― Adam Cesare, Clown in a Cornfield

“Philly ate its rot, was constantly demolishing the old to make way for the new. Looking at these houses, Quinn was struck with the feeling that Kettle Springs had left its best days behind. The town had given up.”
― Adam Cesare, Clown in a Cornfield

“And the voice she used to remind herself was not her own but Ruston Vance’s. He was her redneck Obi-Wan Kenobi.”
― Adam Cesare, Frendo Lives

“Enter and Be Blessed. Leave and Be Blessed. His mom had a QVC problem.”
― Adam Cesare, Clown in a Cornfield