Jeff

“How can she expect her children to dream as big as the stars if they can't lift their heads to gaze upon them?”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“She remembers yelling, so much yelling, so much saying 'no no no, Tom, NO!'

But if you tell someone "no" enough times, they start thinking "yes", just to hear something else, just to hear a different word, they start thinking YES.”
― Josh Malerman, Malorie

“This is my right; it is the right of every human being. I choose not the suffocating anesthetic of the suburbs, but the violent jolt of the Capital, that is my choice. The meanest patient, yes, even the very lowest is allowed some say in the matter of her own prescription. Thereby she defines her humanity. I wish, for your sake, Leonard, I could be happy in this quietness. [pause]But if it is a choice between Richmond and death, I choose death..”
― Virginia Woolf