Edward Trimnell > Quotes

“It has been my observation that Walmart’s “everyday low prices” are at least partly achieved by minimizing the number of sales clerks on the floor at any given time.”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween

“grey hair fell in clumps from a pallid, wart-covered scalp.”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween

“It’s not uncommon for me to see the head collector at this time of year. I only see him briefly—and never up close.”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween

“If you do the right thing for selfish reasons, does that detract from the rightness of the act itself?”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween

“Samhain, Crom Cruach, and Bwca Llwyd.”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween

“the head collector will see you!”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween

“On the way out I pass another sales clerk. She’s a bit older and rather on the chubby side. As I’m about to push one of the glass doors open I hear her say, “Hey, you’re going to lose your head!”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween

“Something will eventually take my life—but the head collector won’t.”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween

“Bobby Nagel would not die of lung cancer.”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween

“The youths were consumed by the fire, so that no one was to hear their wedding songs.”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween

“They were an army of grim reapers, waging a war against those of us who had the audacity to live and embrace the pleasures of the world.”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween

“Maybe I’ll make love to my wife tonight, I think.”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween

“For twelve hours you will know no peace,” he croaked, in the voice of the old man. “For twelve hours you will be tested.”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween

“I’m walking toward the Walmart’s electronics section when I catch a brief glimpse of the head collector in the rear area of the store—”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween

“For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” -2 Corinthians, 2: 18”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween

“My last Beggars’ Night was in nineteen forty-seven.”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween

“The head collector was telling me that he was going to kill me now—that there was nothing for me to do but reconcile myself to the inevitable.”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween

“Don’t Call Us Wahhabis!”   The term Wahhabi is actually offensive to Wahhabis themselves, as it suggests that they venerate Wahhab, the prophet, rather than God. Wahhabis refer to their own religious affiliation as Muwahiddin (“Unitarianism”).”
― Edward Trimnell, Understanding the Middle East: History, Religion, and the Clash of Cultures

“Well, that sack was full of heads. And if you saw the sack, then you probably saw the big knife as well.”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween

“Be careful”, he said. “It’s a scary, scary night out there.”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween

“there was simply something unnatural and vaguely indecent about the dead and the living mixing in this way.”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween

“Salvation could come out of nowhere, but so could disaster.”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween

“Shove off, dickhead.”
― Edward Trimnell, 12 Hours of Halloween