Horror Quote by Jack Ketchum

“Fighting for your life is a fucking ball. As long as you didn’t get slaughtered.”

— Jack Ketchum

“The trick of functioning with grief is that of remembering and forgetting all at once. Of letting the ghost walk at your side but…

— Jack Ketchum

“Friendship and sex were really all she wanted from men these days.”

— Jack Ketchum

“She had always given too much of her life over to relationships, and they’d never quite worked out. Now she was simplifying her life…

— Jack Ketchum

pain can work form the outside in.

— Jack Ketchum

As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.

— Jack Ketchum

“You could grow up every which way, a tree standing tall and straight in an open field or blasted and twisted on the side…

— Jack Ketchum

“She was grinning and she should have been pretty when she grinned. She had good white teeth and a lovely, delicate mouth. But something…

— Jack Ketchum

Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

— Jack Ketchum

“In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just…

— Jack Ketchum

“He was a good man and a kind man but he never knew what he wanted. I think that eventually it killed him.”

— Jack Ketchum

“Bad enough I’m a goddamn burden to myself.”

— Jack Ketchum