Jessica Freeburg > Quotes

“he set up painted foam and resin headstones in the front yard, with names like Hugh R. Next, Ima Goner, Myra Mains, and Ted N. Buried.”
― Jessica Freeburg, Death Awaits

“The report states that only a steak through the heart or sunlight can destroy such a beast.”
― Jessica Freeburg, Death Awaits

“Any marriage can survive on just a few simple gestures per week. A back rub, some flowers, cleaning something up without being asked to…they don’t all have to be intimate things, just something selfless that one does for the other.”
― Jessica Freeburg, Death Awaits

“It was far too challenging to be accepting and far too easy to hate.”
― Jessica Freeburg, Death Awaits

“Blood and guts spilled all over the concrete as they took out the small group on the loading bay. ”
― Jessica Freeburg, Death Awaits

“That leaves us only the steak. We have that, I trust. We took enough from the Bovine creatures.”
― Jessica Freeburg, Death Awaits

“Knowledge is good, be the price what it may.”
― Jessica Freeburg, Death Awaits

“I finished my tea and watched her staring off. I knew the space into which she gazed. That middle ground of emptiness where people search for answers when they don’t even know how to frame the questions.”
― Jessica Freeburg, Death Awaits

“I think a man who fails to kiss a woman when a woman wants to be kissed–needs to be kissed–is condemned to hell. A man who cannot recognize when a woman wants to be kissed lives in hell. It is the not the kiss that is delicate, it is the words. You have to say words after you kiss. That is the challenge.”
― Jessica Freeburg, Death Awaits