Dan’s Reviews > Demon Copperhead > Status Update

“Trust the road. Because nobody stays, and in the long run you’re on your own with your ghost. You’re the ship, they’re the bottle.”

“Fly away and don’t fall back into the slime I’m trying to crawl out of here…Too scared to leave the last place where people looked at me and their son or blood brother or their shot at a winning season…”

There were kids inside, the older ones playing basketball, Black each and all, as entirely as we up home were white, and from the looks of that street, just about as broke. All of us living where we got born maybe you have to pay extra to mingle.

People find more ways to shut up their monsters than the Bible has verses.

“it felt like church, the part where they say, remember, who died for your sins. For Dori and me, all our best people died on us early, before we had any good shot at sin. so we had catching up to do maybe that’s why nothing we ever did felt wrong.”

“A dead parent is a tricky kind of ghost. If you can make it into more like a doll, putting it in the real house and clothes and such that they had, it helps you to picture them as a person instead of just a person shaped hole in the air. Which helps you feel less like a person shaped invisible kid.”

“The hopeless wishes that won’t quit stalking you: some perfect words you think you could say to somebody to make them see you, and love you, and stay. Or could say to your mirror, same reason.”

“Any sport that’s not football around here is like vanilla. Why even eat that, if they’ve invented flavors?”

“Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. I can always be hopeful of you.”