Allen Zadoff > Quotes

“Grief. This is what it does to people. It makes them strangers to themselves.”
― Allen Zadoff

“It's the kind of leather seat that pulls you in, begs to to relax against it.”
― Allen Zadoff, Boy Nobody

“When in doubt, emulate.”
― Allen Zadoff, Boy Nobody

“That's pretty fast”
― Allen Zadoff, Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have

“You want to come back to the bank vault?” Jack says.
The bank vault. That’s what Jack calls his house.”
― Allen Zadoff, Boy Nobody

“He knows how to take a punch, but he doesn’t know how to take a car door to the head. Nobody does.”
― Allen Zadoff, The Hit: Book 1

“Your best kicks ass and takes names,” Jack says, and he punches my shoulder again.”
― Allen Zadoff, Boy Nobody

“There was some violence a year ago. An important kid got shot during an attempted kidnapping while on spring break in Mexico. The Fortune 500 went security crazy. Now rich kids like Jack need a commando team to take a dump.”
― Allen Zadoff, Boy Nobody

“bullshit.”
― Allen Zadoff, The Hit: Book 1

“But Mom has to be here. That’s because she missed the last one, along with just about every other school event, and we almost got expelled. I say “we” because they blame the whole family in our school. There’s no such thing as a student alone—the student is an extension of the family. They call it the Critical Family Dynamic. I call it Guilt by Association.”
― Allen Zadoff, Since You Left Me

“A stupid guy with a gun would think he’d already won.”
― Allen Zadoff, The Hit: Book 1

“You think that just because you’re in a politician’s house, you’re seeing the real person? Pretty naive, Ben.”
― Allen Zadoff, Boy Nobody

“I have to change my life.

That’s what I write in my journal the next day. It’s what I felt after my vision. The gap between my real life and the vision was so great that I have to do something about it. Life as it currently looks does not work for me anymore. I have no choice but to change.
So I come up with a plan.
It starts Monday morning. It starts with school. It starts with telling the truth.”
― Allen Zadoff, Since You Left Me

“There's no one to see
There's no one here”
― Allen zadoff, I Am the Mission

“Wi-Fi.”
― Allen Zadoff, The Hit: Book 1

“I listen as I walk down the hall, measuring off the seconds before she closes the door. With a friend, you might close it right behind them. With someone you’re interested in, you might wait a few seconds before closing. And with someone you’re falling for . . . With someone you’re falling for, you don’t go inside. You wait and watch them go. Just like she’s doing now.”
― Allen Zadoff, Boy Nobody

“sound coming. I watch as he introduces me. I look into”
― Allen Zadoff, The Hit: Book 1

“I look at her eyes. They’re bright green, dotted with a few speckles of brown. I don’t think I’ve ever looked directly in her eyes. I’m always seeing her from behind or the side, studying different parts of her without really looking at her.”
― Allen Zadoff, Since You Left Me