Closely People Quotes by James Sallis

“You're not very good at this, are you?' 'At what I do, I'm the best. This isn't what I do.”

— James Sallis

“Rina’s always claimed that I expect too little from life,” Standard said. “Then at least you’ll never be disappointed.”

— James Sallis

The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors.

— James Sallis

“Some brainless comedy where actors with perfect white teeth spoke their lines then froze in place to let the laugh track unwind.”

— James Sallis

He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he…

— James Sallis

“In my junior year I discovered books. . . . Devoured [them] the way other kids did candy or sandwiches, spent days hunched over…

— James Sallis

“We're professionals. People make deals, they need to stick to them. That's the way it works, if it's going to work at all.”

— James Sallis

Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup.…

— James Sallis

“We aren’t angels. Angels couldn’t breathe the air down here. They’d die.”

— James Sallis

Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.

— James Sallis

Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.

— James Sallis

What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in: 'There's a…

— James Sallis