“Don’t dream of anything too horrible,” she says. “And if you do, just add a naked woman on roller skates. That always puts an end to a bad dream.” — Josh Malerman Copy Share Image
“It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.” — Josh Malerman Copy Share Image
“War is embarrassing, Mom would say. And none of this fighting will mean anything in ten years. Of course she was both right and… — Josh Malerman Copy Share Image
“It’s the spaces between words, the downbeats in a conversation in which two people feel bad for having fought.” — Josh Malerman Copy Share Image
“Don’t get killed,” Marla says. “I won’t.” “Oh yeah?” “That’s not my story. Not how my story is gonna end.” “That’s just about the… — Josh Malerman Copy Share Image
“Philosophy doesn’t travel at the same speed technology does. It takes a man forty years to realize what it took his father forty years… — Josh Malerman Copy Share Image
“She’d heard of people, adults usually, intentionally turning a good thing into a bad thing. When things were going good, adults liked to ruin… — Josh Malerman Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s because people can’t see the end that they agree to begin.” — Josh Malerman Copy Share Image
“By 1914 the world wised up. And you know what we got out of it? Do you know what thousands of years of military… — Josh Malerman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes things just got too complicated. Something unwanted was added to something wanted and blew the whole thing apart.” — Josh Malerman Copy Share Image
“Wires run from under the back door into the first-floor bedrooms, where amplifiers alert Malorie and the children to any sounds coming from outside… — Josh Malerman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“How can any man know how serious he is about something he says he’s going to do until he does it?” — Josh Malerman Copy Share Image
