Philip Fracassi > Quotes

“One reason tragedy exists is to teach us how to help others, help others learn how to find a way through their own dark time, through a journey of growth.”
― Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

“God’s greatest gift to us is our ability to love others, and to see it happening before your eyes … it’s like watching a garden grow.”
― Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

“You don’t wash with another man’s blood and expect to get clean.”
― Philip Fracassi, Shiloh

“At this point, panic has taken off its coat, kicked off its shoes, pulled up a seat, smiled that maniacal smile, the one showing too many bright white teeth, to let you know it really likes it here, and it’s decided to stay a while.”
― Philip Fracassi, Child Alone with Strangers

“Find something to love about life’s miracle, which more and more seemed like the ultimate joke. They were but animate flesh on a planet as inconsequential as they were. They all tried so hard to live and to feel, desperate to understand the why of it all, time and time again, but they simply lived and died by the billions, and never, not once, did they feel truly alive, were no closer to answering the biggest questions, the ones that mattered. The imagination organ let humanity see God in their minds but still, somehow, the point was missed, leaving a planet full of idiots.”
― Philip Fracassi, Sacculina

“There are no discovered treasures for those who do not seek them out”
― Philip Fracassi, Gothic

“I only know that my path has been chosen, and my mission is clear: save who can be saved. Whatever it takes.”
― Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

“It is his love for the boy that weakens him. But that’s what love is, ultimately. A form of blessed weakness.”
― Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

“Ain’t it grand?”
― Philip Fracassi, No One is Safe!

“Sadness and loss did that to a man–took from him. Took from the inside out, so that by the time you saw the results it was too late to do anything about it.”
― Philip Fracassi, Sacculina

“Anyway, just stopped by to say congrats on the new book. Personally, I wasn’t a big fan of the last one. Seemed pretty bleak, even for a horror novel. I found it…” Ben eyes the stars beyond the glass panels of the geodesic dome, tapping a finger on his chin theatrically. “Hateful. Yeah, that’s the word I think fits. It was hateful.”
― Philip Fracassi, Gothic

“contain”
― Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

“The discovery of Christ is not found in a darkened room, Peter,” he says solemnly. “It’s found in the light. God is not found through escape from a distant place, but through the arrival of where you already are.”
― Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

“Jack clapped his hands together and Jim let go of a breath he didn’t know he’d been holding.”
― Philip Fracassi, Sacculina

“Because we fear the incomprehensible, we fear other life, he thought reflectively, recalling a lesson on evolution from high school. It’s defensive... the alpha species always looking over their shoulder, always afraid of what might come next in the chain...”
― Philip Fracassi, Sacculina

“The world is chock-full of good men and bad men. You know what the difference between them is?” Sybil shakes her head. “Enlighten me.” “Nothing,” Rose says”
― Philip Fracassi, The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre

“A brilliant meadow, the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. Colors I’ve never seen! I run, run, run toward the light. I’m so strong! So fast! I hear something behind me and turn.… My boy! Jack races up to me, grinning and panting and young, his chocolate coat shining as if he were formed from sunlight, from stars. I kneel and he barrels into me and I fall over onto my back, laughing as he whimpers with pure joy—licks at my face, my arms, my hands. “Jack! Good boy!” I say, laughing. I hug him and kiss his head. Finally, he lets me stand, and together we continue walking through the meadow, toward the light. He runs ahead, runs back. Barks and spins. My Jack.”
― Philip Fracassi, The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre

“Sabbath Lake.”
― Philip Fracassi, No One is Safe!

“I have so much I want to live for. I want to see sunsets and watch the seasons change. I want to have fun and enjoy my life. I want to read, and travel... and I want to live. But part of living means not living in fear, Miller. Part of living means doing what's difficult, what's frightening, what's right, eben if it puts you in the path of danger. I want to live, damn it, not be shoved onto some dusty shelf or locked inside a closet for my own safety.”
― Philip Fracassi, The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre

“At the time, he'd thought to himself, quite philosophically, that getting older was nothing but a series of slow deaths of the people we once were, and how, with each death of our past selves, those held memories of past lives also died. Not forgotten, perhaps, but withered and lifeless. Colorless. Muted by time, made insignificant by the damning present and a relentless, bullying future.”
― Philip Fracassi, The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre

“ there is light all around me. There is light inside me. ”
― Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

“THERE WERE A LOT of strange things about the town of Sabbath.”
― Philip Fracassi, Commodore

“imagination was truly an invisible organ given to humans by God,”
― Philip Fracassi, Sacculina

“But that’s what love is, ultimately. A form of blessed weakness.”
― Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

“him, because he can stand it now. He can stand it quite well. In a dark, secret closet of his mind, a place where the flies can’t enter, a piece of him hides. Like the closet from his childhood, except now, instead of fearing the dark, he welcomes it. The dark means safety. It means that there is a thread of will that remains to him. A thread of sanity. That part of him hiding”
― Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

“I can walk,” I say, not knowing if it’s the truth, but also knowing there’s no other option.”
― Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

“We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observing but whose orbit we were forced to nonetheless reside within.”
― Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

“Our memories are the constitution of who we are," he says, eyes intent on mine. "They are reflections of a billion lives on infinite planes…We only need to know how to open the door and we can travel to any of them, because they're all happening right now.”
― Philip Fracassi, The Third Rule of Time Travel

“Guard your feelings like gold coins from those who would steal them, or pick them from your pocket.”
― Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

“Gabino thought of Florida as a pale, fat, sweaty old woman,”
― Philip Fracassi, Behold the Void