Mark Richard > Quotes

“That's the real excellent scary part, that feeling, and that feeling won't come if the lady from next door is there and your mom won't ride the ride, because what brings on that feeling most is when your mom rides wedged in tight with you and your brother on nights like this, when your mom will scream the excellent scream, the scream that people you see in snatches on the boardwalk stop and stare for, the scream that stops the ride next door, the scream that tells us to our hearts the bolts have finally broken.”
― Mark Richard, The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories

“Satan demands to sift us like sand through his fingers, and God, knowing everything, allows it.”
― Mark Richard, House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home

“I was dead and drowned. I lay on the bottom of the fishhouse creek looking up at the night sky through a low tide. I could make out amber lights of stars and the moon dulled by the peat water of the creek. I was a carcass comfortable in the cool shifting underwater eddies.”
― Mark Richard, Fishboy

“You is mine, Fishboy, you is all mine.”
― Mark Richard, Fishboy

“Don’t be frightened, Fishboy,”
― Mark Richard, Fishboy