Victor LaValle

“This is how you hustle the arcane. Skirt the rules but don’t break them.”

— Victor LaValle

Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.

— Victor LaValle

“I don’t know what to say about the hygiene of the male species.”

— Victor LaValle

A little style is a good thing, but you can’t trust a person who won’t be ugly in front of you.

— Victor LaValle

“His life had been disrupted, but not his billing cycles.”

— Victor LaValle

“It's hard to fake faith, in yourself or anything else.”

— Victor LaValle

“People hear that you grew up religious, and they can’t imagine you’d have a complex relationship with faith. If you believe one…

— Victor LaValle

Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.

— Victor LaValle

“Wheeler turned back to Apollo. “I’ve never been this far uptown in Manhattan.” “Best roast chicken in New York is right on…

— Victor LaValle

Why do any of us act the way we do? Is it our beliefs or our biology that shapes us? Lauren Grodstein…

— Victor LaValle

“I don’t have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.”

— Victor LaValle

“A thought, an idea, a shared dream; parenthood is a story two people start telling together.”

— Victor LaValle

Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just…

— Victor LaValle

“Every human being is a series of stories; it’s nice when someone wants to hear a new one.”

— Victor LaValle

“If you haven't caused a scene in a psych unit, it's just because you haven't been inside long enough.”

— Victor LaValle

“Even worse, there was a smell. Musky and warm, like old blood. It made his throat close, and he wanted to wretch.”

— Victor LaValle

“I felt in danger for my life,” Mr. Howard said. “I emptied my revolver. Then I reloaded and did it again.” Tester’s”

— Victor LaValle

“Imagine slaying trolls and then being killed by a hit-and-run driver. “We have to wait on the Q11,” Apollo said.”

— Victor LaValle

“I’m going in here to fuck some shit up. You do whatever you want to do.”

— Victor LaValle

“It’s easier to hold onto a bad idea if you never share it, and it’s harder to defend one if you let…

— Victor LaValle

The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated.

— Victor LaValle

“A bad fairy tale has some simple goddamn moral. A great fairy tale tells the truth.”

— Victor LaValle

There are really only two ways to react to the extraordinary. The first is to ponder the grand purpose until all the…

— Victor LaValle

“Her professionalism aside, Nabisase's victory was rigged by an endomorph and a goblin standing in crabgrass, and she would never know it.…

— Victor LaValle

Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.

— Victor LaValle