“War is embarrassing, Mom would say. And none of this fighting will mean anything in ten years. Of course she was both right and wrong about that. Twelve years removed from the war, it did feel a lot less important.… — 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
