David Joy Quotes

#1. There was a place where all light tends to go, and I reckon that was heaven.

David Joy

#2. Eventually all of that pain and anger just sort of fades away, and all we're left with is growing old and forgetting.

David Joy

#3. It wasn't here or there that had ever been scary. It was the middle ground, that long desolate space between, that scared the hell out of me.

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#4. Some souls aren't worth saving, I thought. There're some souls that even the devil wants no part of.

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#5. I did wonder what happened when we died, though, and I'd wondered about it for most of my life. Thinking that nothing happened, that there was absolutely nothing following all of this pain, seemed just as silly as magic. No, there had to be something.

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#6. Only the middle ground of this wicked world mattered, the vast gap that stretched between, and those who were born with enough grit to brave it.

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#7. Light never shined on a man like me and that was certain. In a lot of ways, that made men like Daddy the lucky ones to have only ever known the darkness. Knowing only darkness, a man doesn't have to get his heart broken in search of the light. I envied him for that.

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#8. The conversations of men had always been muddy rivers, the surface's roiling a reflection of what's buried, but the bottom some mysterious thing that would always be hidden.

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