“In the Trees ON LOU’S SWEET, ROUND, BRISTLY FACE WAS THE LOOK OF A CHILD who has just seen a car back… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“She was saying he wasn’t like the children in Christmasland. She was saying he was still himself. But Charlie Manx had said… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“The fires of hell are not hot enough for a man—or woman!—who would hurt his children.” — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“Poor kids often dressed up. It was rich kids who dressed down, carefully assembling a blue-collar costume: eighty-dollar designer jeans that had… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“She wanted to start a website, a public-awareness campaign, a newsletter, to get the word out that if you were a woman… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way. — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“Bruce Wayne Carmody had been unhappy for so long that it had stopped being a state he paid attention to. Sometimes Wayne… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“Vic twisted her head to peer back over her shoulder, wanting another look, and saw three other children emerging out of the… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“He had won it as a child, playing Scriptural Jeopardy in his Sunday-school class. When faced with answers from the Bible, Ig… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Innocence ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don’t know… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life. — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“He had despised that Mary with her idiot smile, symbol of a story that meant nothing, servant of a God who no good to… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“Vic’s father was badass. Other dads built things. Hers blew shit up and rode away on a Harley, smoking the cigarette he used to… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it." "What part of… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“The air was rank, and on my left, in a broad green meadow, arranged neatly in pairs, were dead lions and dead walruses and… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.” — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“When you were a Goth, it was important to at least imply the possibility you might burst into flames in direct sunlight.” — Joe Hill Copy Share Image