Hagridden Quotes

“I offer you your life, friend, and recommend you take it.”
― Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden

“Bullets is worth more than food, the girl said, and we can’t eat gunstock.”
― Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden

“I guess I’m just sad is all.

You and me alike, but sad don’t get the dishes done.”
― Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden

“I heard a lot of things I know ain’t true and I seen a lot of things ain’t supposed to be true but was, and I tell you something girl, I believe they is a Hell.”
― Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden

“One pit held the tangled severed legs of men, blood caked over kneecaps or shredded thigh muscle. Another pit held a confusion of forearms and hands. They were the graves of amputations – he’d seen them in the field, behind the surgical tent where the screams echoed long after their issuing mouths had closed unconscious.”
― Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden

“Me and her, we know death same as you, we stabbed plenty a man our ownselves. So you come for us you better kill us outright and not mess about with no fool games like you talk, cause ain’t neither one of us would leave you alive.”
― Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden

“Way my mama used to tell me, a girl what lusts after a man falls prey to the forces of darkness. The rougarou ain’t just a wolfman but a punishment sent by God to ravage a girl in the night, and if she survives she becomes one herself.”
― Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden

“The oaks along the ridge were writhing like tortured epileptics in the winds, and she could make out through the thick rain a cascade of water like a cataract come roiling down the inside slope toward her; a vast arching spray exploded bright against the dark sky as the Gulf slammed over the chenier.”
― Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden

“Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.”
― Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden

“Killing a man is indeed a pleasure unmatched in this world. Perhaps it’s a pleasure we could share.”
― Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden

“She ran the harder and zagged more erratically, and in the wreckage left from the hurricane the girl misjudged her path and ran straight into the old well.
She didn’t even scream.”
― Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden

“What one of us wants we all want. You a man of the earth as you are, you ought to have known we hunt in packs. And now I come to finish you.”
― Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden

“Dead man shouldn’t have no fears. Makes his passing easier.”
― Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden

“You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen.”
― Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden

“You tell a soul or even God Hisself what you seen when the rougarou changes , or even that you met one, and a year ain’t passed, you’re liable to change to one yourself.”
― Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden

“Not having any drink about ain’t the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body’s perspective.”
― Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden

“War’s all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.”
― Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden

“Tastes change, Cherie. I find the older I get the more I like to be reminded of my youth.”
― Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden

“I don’t like coming over here at night, the girl said. The bayou is scary in the dark, all manner of things running wild out there.”
― Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden

“You’ll likely always have some reason or other to hang onto that girl. You just want her cause she was married to your son, and I understand that, he was a friend to me like a brother, near the only family I ever knew, and I miss him almost as much as you. But I need me a woman.”
― Samuel Snoek-Brown, Hagridden