Paul Cleave > Quotes

“Most killers have pretty average lifestyles. Steady jobs too. Sometimes they're even living the family life-white picket fence and a four-door sedan. That's what makes them so scary. They act human and they slot into society and since a young age they've known how to hide the crazy; they put it up on a shelf and only bring it out on special occasions.”
― Paul Cleave, The Killing Hour

“Are we living in such a throwaway society that we’re not even allowed to hang on to our hatred and remorse?”
― Paul Cleave, The Cleaner

“You’ve never understood homophobia. Gay guys tend to be better groomed and better dressed and more sophisticated than the rest of us—if they were straight, they’d be stealing all the women.”
― Paul Cleave, Trust No One

“I spend a hundred and fifty bucks on a cellphone that has more features than even Gene Roddenberry could have dreamt of.”
― Paul Cleave, Cemetery Lake

“Pain tourists – people who revel in the misery of others.”
― Paul Cleave, The Pain Tourist

“I haven't been completely honest with you.”
― Paul Cleave, Collecting Cooper

“That’s the thing about the Scott Bullies of the world - they do what they want because they can, because they don’t care, because their empathy chip has been switched out with an asshole chip.”
― Paul Cleave, A Killer Harvest

“James's thoughts as he lies in bed tend to gravitate toward what he's just watched or read - which isn't great if what he's just watched or read is a story about killer clowns hiding in the closet.”
― Paul Cleave, The Pain Tourist

“Everybody is worried you’re going to mess it up, that you’re going to make it halfway down the aisle, shit yourself, and trip over the priest.”
― Paul Cleave, Trust No One

“The visitors end up arriving just before noon, and it turns out to be a pair of policemen, which is disappointing, he thinks, but not as disappointing as being visited by your accountant.”
― Paul Cleave, Trust No One

“I knew he was gay. When we were fifteen, though, he was so deep in the closet I’m sure he could taste Turkish delight.”
― Paul Cleave, Joe Victim

“Monday does what it does best- it arrives quicker than any other day. Joshua is sure the physics behind that is something neither Albert Einstein nor Stephen Hawking could get a handle on.”
― Paul Cleave, A Killer Harvest

“... Melissa better not turn her back on her because nothing sums up crazy as much as a fat woman in love.”
― Paul Cleave, Joe Victim

“The faster you go the bigger the mess.”
― Paul Cleave, Joe Victim

“Burglaries occur every few minutes. Mostly thanks to teenagers who will grow up to become armed offenders who shoot people to get enough money to buy their daily prescription of drugs. Up there with burglary is car theft. Cars are stolen almost as often as homes are broken into.”
― Paul Cleave, The Cleaner

“domestic abuse isn’t about a man who is in love with his wife too much; it’s about a man who is in love with the ability to control her.”
― Paul Cleave, The Cleaner