Brian Panowich > Quotes

“but to see her in person was”
― Brian Panowich, Bull Mountain

“They shared a moment of crushing sadness that tightened her chest and suddenly made it hard to breathe. It was the kind of sadness brought on by turning corners that led you to places there was no finding your way home from. They had both looked deep within themselves and found an ugliness that couldn't be stuffed back inside.”
― Brian Panowich, Bull Mountain

“The smile felt strange on my face, almost as if it belonged to someone else. I guess it had been a while since I’d used it. I turned and shot it her way. “What do you want it to be?”
― Brian Panowich, Maybe I Should Just Shoot You In The Face

“The idea of a drink always sounded better than the actual act of drinking itself.”
― Brian Panowich, Bull Mountain

“It was a cycle that kept his wife and son in a constant state of disrepair.”
― Brian Panowich, Like Lions

“He remembered a time when his silence wasn’t a personal assault on her emotions, but an attractive strong, silent-type quality that she used to love.”
― Brian Panowich, Like Lions

“She was eighteen-going-on-a-hundred and meth-skinny. Her thrift store coat had a tear in the sleeve and a style that hankered after the days when disco was king.”
― Brian Panowich, Maybe I Should Just Shoot You In The Face

“Did you know that hornets will attack you for no reason? Not like a yellow jacket,”
― Brian Panowich, Bull Mountain

“Romero’s was a low rent pick-up joint in a low end neighborhood. It was all buzzing neon out front and cocktails with suggestive names inside; the kind of place where the sad and the lonely came to drown their troubles like kittens in a sack, before pairing off to fuck each other’s brains out. It was a home for the kind of misery that loved company.”
― Brian Panowich, Maybe I Should Just Shoot You In The Face

“it’s”
― Brian Panowich, Maybe I Should Just Shoot You In The Face