Home Invasion Quotes

“It didn't matter how old you got, the finality of death never changed, and neither did the ideals of loyalty and duty and honor, things this punk had never understood.”
― Martha Reed, Lucky Charms: 12 Crime Tales

“This was where war happened, in someone’s backyard. Sometimes it was yours. Often, it was someone’s a world away. But it did happen. In this moment. In the next breath. Every day.
Every day, someone lived in the midst of destruction and chaos. Every day, someone’s flower boxes filled with gunpowder’s haze, a child’s laughter turned to tears. There had been a day when someone watered those flowers in the evening’s peaceful quiet and the children caught fireflies in mason jars. And that day will come again, when the crickets and the bullets no longer have to compete for the night’s stage. But for now, all anyone could do was fight on the crickets’ behalf.”
― Kelseyleigh Reber

“She opened Myrtle's bureau drawers, investigating her underwear. Some of it was silk, quality stuff, but to Nettie most of the good things looked old. The same was true of the dresses hung on her side of the closet. Nettie went on to the bathroom, where she inventoried the pills in the medicine cabinet, and from there to the sewing room, where she admired the dolls. A nice house. A lovely house. Too bad the man who lived here was a piece of shit.”
― Stephen King, Needful Things

“Quietus Interruptus by Stewart Stafford

I've just seen a live mugshot,
A home intruder demands I know,
Crack out knuckle-dusters or mace,
Miscreant justice cold and slow.

Should I invite him in to breakfast?
Serve rich Eggs à la Pepper Spray!
Thump him with my coffee mug,
To end this castle siege for the day.

An amateur matador from this bull fled,
I see frosted breath in a neighbour’s garden,
Shirked his curtain call in a magenta dawn,
Not even a disingenuous “I beg your pardon!”

© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford