Aaron Starmer

“It won’t surprise you to hear that I’m a skeptical person. I don’t even believe half the garbage that tumbles from my…

— Aaron Starmer

“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, all that stuff. Death takes everyone. Most of us too early, a few of us not…

— Aaron Starmer

“He reached his hands toward the door and I figured what the hell. I’d never been in a silo before, and while…

— Aaron Starmer

“In books, even the very best boy detectives are dismissed with a laugh. In real life, they're sent to psychologists.”

— Aaron Starmer

“The more time you spend with someone, the more you realize they’re not perfect. Everyone comes from a different place with different…

— Aaron Starmer

“Kilgore here will keep the record straight.” “Kilgore?” “The tape recorder. I name things. If you name things, then you treat them…

— Aaron Starmer

“Riverman, Riverman, blood to ice.”

— Aaron Starmer

“Her bone-white face lit up like she was at a surprise party. “Hear that, Dwyer? He called me ma’am! Stay forever if…

— Aaron Starmer

“It’s in those moments of admitting and accepting your own terribleness that you realize other people can be terrible too. And if…

— Aaron Starmer

“Making efforts was not exactly my forte. I always had great ideas, of course. I would have been perfect for a think…

— Aaron Starmer

“War will change people.”

— Aaron Starmer

“Rumors are as important as anything. Even if they’re not true, they end up turning people into who they are.”

— Aaron Starmer

“Do you want to be saved?” I asked. Keri cocked an eyebrow. “Like Jesus?” “Like Lancelot.” “I hang my hair out the…

— Aaron Starmer

“If you name things, then you treat them better.”

— Aaron Starmer

“We were weirdos, Fiona and I. Creative minds like ours were the minds of aliens. And the soul-suckers, the plagiarists, the malicious…

— Aaron Starmer

“He’s not a bad guy, deep down,” I said. My dad slipped the key into the door. “Deep down, no one is.…

— Aaron Starmer