Harrisonville Quotes

“They were liberating Harrisonville, showing the hypocrites and phonies and $$$-squirrelers and chokeragged Yesmen some puffed-up balls. They were widening the mental horizons of a town more narrow-minded than its streets; they were missionaries laboring amon their bloodkin: montheytheistic theocentric cousins and uncles who swore allegiance to Uncle Sam, Jim Crow, Oral Roberts, and Dale Carnegie; they were waging their impudent revolution against people they'd cowedly called "sir" all their teenage lives.”
― Joe Eszterhas, Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse

“Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.”
― Joe Eszterhas, Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse

“EGAD was a coffeehouse, built for the kids of Harrisonville by a middle-aged Jesus Freak. Its letters meant "Everybody Give A Damn!”
― Joe Eszterhas, Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse