Edward Lorn > Quotes

“Happy enough to smile like a man getting a hand job from a shake weight enthusiast.”
― Edward Lorn, Cruelty Episode Five

“She had a gorgeous smile, which consisted of two rows of shimmering white teeth.”
― Edward Lorn, A Final Act of Cruelty: Episodes Six - Ten

“Hope? Love? There are no such things, pumpkin.”
― Edward Lorn, Hope for the Wicked

“Wide-eyed with nostrils flaring, Mom fumed. She looked as if she'd just snorted a line of cocaine laced with Tabasco sauce.”
― Edward Lorn, Others & Oddities: A Collection

“It reeked of customer service. Customer service was like underwear insomuch that it’s useful for holding up appearances in public—that is, unless you can see it, then everyone involved becomes uncomfortable, and no one wants that.”
― Edward Lorn, The Bedding of Boys

“If Candy was my heart and soul, Eddy was my strength. You”
― Edward Lorn, Bay's End

“They sought Joy in other people’s pain. They sought Joy in church. But Joy was none of these things. Joy was companionship, because life, by itself, is not enough.”
― Edward Lorn, A Final Act of Cruelty: Episodes Six - Ten

“I had seen Salem’s Lot. Only bad things tapped on your window while you slept. “Trey!”
― Edward Lorn, Bay's End

“The ghost in the closet is calling, and it can no longer wait. I’m afraid Eddy is just going to have to be patient. Just a few more miles to go, old soul… a few more miles.”
― Edward Lorn, Bay's End

“I warned you when we first started this journey that things would get nasty. Well, we’ve come to that juncture. You can skip this part if you like;”
― Edward Lorn, Bay's End

“The darkness hidden in the recesses of my mind spilled out before you. Save yourself. Because I cannot prepare you for what is to come…”
― Edward Lorn, Bay's End

“What better way to remove a burden than to pawn it off on some unknowing soul?”
― Edward Lorn, The Bedding of Boys

“Matthew Pontiff’s”
― Edward Lorn, A Final Act of Cruelty: Episodes Six - Ten

“The first thing Eddy Treemont said to me on Saturday afternoon was also the last thing he said to me the day he died. “Whataya”
― Edward Lorn, Bay's End

“The rat wasn’t all that funny, but John was five snorts into his personal stash of crushed crystal and he might as well have been in a Jim Carrey movie.”
― Edward Lorn, Cruelty

“To love, a person must only believe the illusion of love that is given to them.”
― Edward Lorn, Hope for the Wicked

“Eventually they would come to the proper end of it all, and then they’d be allowed to stop. Maybe they’d even be allowed to die. How wonderful would that be?”
― Edward Lorn, All Things Lead to the End: A Bay's End Omnibus

“Women are like fireworks, Toby. They're dangerous, beautiful to look at, fun to play with, and just as much of a mystery to me on how they work.”
― Edward Lorn, All Things Lead to the End: A Bay's End Omnibus

“Are any names really good or bad? They’re just names. They all serve a single purpose to give us something to write on our graves when we’re gone.”
― Edward Lorn, All Things Lead to the End: A Bay's End Omnibus

“The events you’ve witnessed here, the blood, the tears, my very soul played out before you, have been to prepare you for what is to come.”
― Edward Lorn, Bay's End

“I had rage on my side, and it was boiling over.”
― Edward Lorn, Hope for the Wicked

“With that complexion and all that hardware in his mouth, the teenager looked like a walking birth control advert.”
― Edward Lorn, Cruelty

“Madness comes in doses big and small, fast-acting and long-lasting, packed with side effects.”
― Edward Lorn, All Things Lead to the End: A Bay's End Omnibus

“I don’t mind being offended. Adds a lil spice to life, like tying up your wife every once and a whi—”
― Edward Lorn, Cruelty

“Funny how things work out that way, how we inadvertently become that which we will ourselves not to be simply by wishing not to be that particular thing. Isn’t that adulthood? Doing that which you do not enjoy so that you might have the time and means to do the things you do enjoy? So many people working to live and living to work and forgetting to simply live. Childhood was existing for the moment, without care or worry, and the ever-present possibility of magic. Can’t forget the magic.”
― Edward Lorn, The Bedding of Boys

“We’re all evil,” the doll’s childlike voice said. “And we’ll all… burn.”
― Edward Lorn, Cruelty

“Aw, man, mos def.”
― Edward Lorn, The Bedding of Boys

“We are creatures of error, whether benign or malevolent, and our ghosts feed off our faults. Remember the lesson, not the failure.”
― Edward Lorn, All Things Lead to the End: A Bay's End Omnibus

“Shock was a wonderful thing. It eased the worst of pain and numbed the body to prepare for the passing of the soul. The evacuation of that soul, to her, was the most beautiful thing in all of existence.”
― Edward Lorn, All Things Lead to the End: A Bay's End Omnibus

“Neighbors without secrets obviously had something wrong with them.”
― Edward Lorn, Fog Warning