Streatfield Road Quotes & Sayings

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons. — James Frey

. . . what I told Malory happened next is that when he looked over at her then it was like he'd been waiting a hundred years to see her, and this crazy ass Ledfeather girl all the way from Standing Rock, she looked off after the elk and then back at Doby through her hair, like she'd maybe been waiting for him too, but was scared a little, wanted to be sure, so Doby opened his mouth and said her name across the backseat of Junior's cab, Claire, like a flower opening in his mouth, and she held her lips together and nodded thank you to him, yes, thank you, and then swallowed what was in her throat and just let the sides of their hands touch together again some like it didn't really matter.
But it did. — Stephen Graham Jones

A major investigation, once it gets underway, is as exciting as watching reruns of Big Brother, although possibly involving less sex and violence. — Ben Aaronovitch

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. — George Washington

I love sushi, though I just read something about how you shouldn't eat sushi more than once a week. — Jacqueline Obradors