Top 100 Pigpen Quotes
#1. Pigpen got excited because he made me grin when he told me that he thought PTSD stood for Probably There's Something wrong but Dunno what.
Katie McGarry
#2. God touched him." Pigpen points one finger in the air. "And with that one touch, he dislocates Jacobs hip. One touch and it was over.
Katie McGarry
#3. Pigpen passes the pan of lasagna in Chevy's direction and he takes two squares for himself, the deposits the corner piece on my plate. I smirk at Pigpen and he scowls back at me.
Katie McGarry
#4. The testosterone wafted off him like dirt off Pigpen from the Peanuts comics.
Susan Fanetti
#5. With one are-you-going-to-live glance at Pigpen, he rolls his eyes, and I sit with Dad on the bench.
Katie McGarry
#6. The blonde checks out the legs of the car like Pigpen checks out the legs of my English teacher--like a dog in heat.
Katie McGarry
#7. Pigpen goes silent and that causes my bones to quiver. The two of us get along because I'm the silent one and he's the one who can't shut up.
Katie McGarry
#8. Pigpen is in his late twenties and thinks he's all handsome with his blonde hair and big muscles. Because he was a Navy SEAL or Army Ranger or something outrageous like that, he also thinks he's awesome, but he doesn't impress.
Katie McGarry
#10. Because everyone is still treating me with kid gloves, Pigpen's driving me in his pickup truck, blasting music that's more screaming than music. I prefer electric guitar over voices, but it's not my fucking truck.
Katie McGarry
#11. Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.
Willa Cather
#12. Calm down," comes a voice, and it's not Razor's. I rip my focus away from the water and there's a man [Pigpen] with blond hair and a cut like Razor's slowly approaching the bridge. His hands are up - a sign of submission. "Just calm down.
Katie McGarry
#13. The terror is strong because we don't act like the riot." Pigpen spits likes he's a viper showing his fangs full of venom. "My old man--he's Riot.
Katie McGarry
#14. Doesn't work like that," Pigpen says real slowly, and my blood pressure plummets. It's a boys' club. Violet had said that. A boys' club that's going to get me killed -
Katie McGarry
#15. A prospect is with us and he stands by his bike as Dad, Eli and Pigpen take off their cuts and lay them on the back. Pigpen flashes that I've-been-judged-mentally-insane-by-a-court smile at the prospect.
Katie McGarry
#16. Eli and Pigpen walk backward as a human shield as they fire, edging me toward my bike.
Katie McGarry
#17. I heard your girl's smart," Pigpen pipes up to ease the building tension. "In fact, I've heard she's fucking Einstein, which brings up the question how the hell she ended up with you.
Katie McGarry
#18. Pigpen slides into the man's space and goes nose to nose. To the cop's credit, he doesn't flinch.
Katie McGarry
#19. Watching the destruction of our planet makes me feel a gloomy as a penguin in a pigpen.
D.J. Milne
#20. [-] Pigpen rounds to face the crowd. Like a lot of brothers in the club, he's ex-military. The voice of the six-two, massive former Army Ranger rumbles against the walls. "If you ain't a brother, clear out!
Katie McGarry
#21. Razor," Pigpen calls as I straddle my bike.
When I meet his eyes, he continues, "Are you tight?
Katie McGarry
#22. Sit in the pigpen with people of ill intent, and see how quickly you, too, start to stink.
Bonnie Lyn Smith
#23. What's going down in your brain?" Pigpen asks.
"Who shot me?"
"We don't know." The way he makes direct eye contact, he's not lying.
Katie McGarry
#24. A man wouldn't be holding a girl on a bridge like he's about to toss her over. I swear on my patch, killing you is not in the Terror's plans." - Pigpen
Katie McGarry
#25. Pigpen pulls off the gravel road near the house and severs the engine. I go to open the door and he stops me. "Talk to me a second, and I don't mean me talking and you nodding your head like that's acceptable conversation.
Katie McGarry
#26. He's hit! He's hit!" Pigpen flies into view, gun drawn and on the prowl to kill.
Katie McGarry
#27. ...Pigpen's currently sitting on as he drinks a beer.
He's been Violet's shadow since Eli left town with Cyrus a few days ago.
Katie McGarry
#28. Pigpen leans against the railing and nails me with his stare. "This is the second time you've gone AWOL on the club. Let me tell you, that shit got old the first time. Next time I fucking text to see if you're alive, you text back.
Katie McGarry
#29. Pigpen warned us that the detective fucked you up." Eli says.
Katie McGarry
#30. I already texted Pigpen and Dust and they're heading with us.
Katie McGarry
#31. Pigpen hooks his foot around the metal folding chair Eli sat in weeks before and it scrapes against the tiles.
Katie McGarry
#33. Pigpen saunters up beside me. He's in his midtwenties and a wall of solid muscle. Most men wet themselves when he looks in their direction. "Eli wants him in.
Katie McGarry
#34. But by the way Pigpen's eyes are flickering between that piece and me, I might have to stab him in the hand with a fork to get it.
"It's mine." He whispers. "Go for it and you're going down."
Despite my best intentions, I smile and his eyes shine with the win.
Katie McGarry
#35. It also means I could dump what I learned about the Riot onto Pigpen and he'd once again shut me out.
Katie McGarry
#36. Pigpen and Dust have already told me, multiple times, that lots of brothers are ready and willing to buy me as many beers as I can drink tonight, tomorrow night, forever.
Katie McGarry
#37. To the left, Pigpen, Man O'War and Dust are laughing in a booth with my brother, Brandon.
Katie McGarry
#38. Pigpen and Dust chuckle, but the rest of the patrons take an intense interest in their food or menu.
Katie McGarry
#39. A new beer with sweat running down the sides slides into view and Pigpen sidles up beside me grinning like a crazy man. "Everyone's dying to know who you're texting with. It's like you're a twelve-year-old girl chained to that damn cell. Have you started your period yet?
Katie McGarry
#40. Pigpen claps my arm and smiles at me like he did the night I was patched in. "Welcome back, brother. Now let's get to work.
Katie McGarry
#41. The nurses are pissed Pigpen gave me a fresh pair of jeans and a T-shirt to change into.
Katie McGarry
#42. Would you rather be stung by a thousand wasps or sleep in the pigpen? Answer one or the other! You have to answer one or the other. Grownup versions may be more sophisticated, as, Are you a Democrat or a Republican? The
Thomas A. Harris
#43. With another curse, I'm out of the truck, slamming the door to piss Pigpen off. He follows as I go up the stairs, then brushes past me when I pause. He grins at me over his shoulder before opening the screen door.
Katie McGarry
#44. Pigpen earned his name as a joke because the girls fall over themselves to gain his attention. Blonde hair, blue eyes...a late twentysomething version of what I hope to be.
Katie McGarry
#45. Besides me, Pigpen is the youngest guy in here and then there's Eli.
Katie McGarry
#46. Were you stalking her?" the guy next to Razor asks. Pigpen. I bet this is the Pigpen Razor has talked about.
Katie McGarry
#48. Pigpen pushes off the wall. "Won't be far."
Which means he'll be outside the door, standing guard.
Katie McGarry
#49. How can I believe you?"
"You can't," says Pigpen. "But I'm not seeing your other options.
Katie McGarry
#50. Pigpen crosses his arms over his chest, clearly pissed that I'm not following his set of rules for hacking. "You should have come to me when you hit that snag.
Katie McGarry
#51. I hate it when he [Pigpen] goes dead serious. It usually means bad shit is going to go down.
Katie McGarry
#52. Eli's on my left and Pigpen on my right as we take off. Both have their guns still drawn and their expressions are deadly.
Katie McGarry
#54. Pigpen taps his steering wheel. "He's in love with her, but he won't fully commit until you're on board with her or at least talk to him again.
Katie McGarry
#55. He [Pigpen] should know better than to ask questions he won't get answers to. He motions to my cell. "I could hack it and just find out."
Proved he could this afternoon after the two of us hacked into emails of someone who's been targeting a client.
Katie McGarry
#56. Pigpen slips in between a group of guys and waves two fingers at the prospect behind the bar. The prospect slides two longnecks to him, and with them in hand, Pigpen motions with his chin for me to follow.
Katie McGarry
#57. I try to muscle my way past but Eli's right-hand man, Pigpen, plants himself in front of me like the towering sack of testosterone and annoyance he is.
Katie McGarry
#58. Pigpen flashes that supermodel grin. "We told him to shove it.
Katie McGarry
#59. Pigpen says your brothers think we're taking too long.
Katie McGarry
#60. Pigpen jumps off as well but snatches my arm, gripping like he means to cause pain.
Katie McGarry
#61. The answering call causes my ears to ring. Pigpen stares at me, unblinking as the mantra is repeated three more times followed by over a hundred men howling into the night.
Katie McGarry
#62. He didn't say school, pinhead." Pigpen interrupts. "He said her parents.
Katie McGarry
#63. A smile stretches across his [Pigpen] face. "Naw, but we had a chaplain over in Afghanistan. Cool son of a bitch. And he'd do this. Out of nowhere tell a story that would put it in perspective.
Katie McGarry
#64. Got it." Pigpen hugs me and I hug him back. I'd be lost without him.
Katie McGarry
#65. They had a smokehouse next to the pigpen - kind of morbid for the pigs. The
Bobby Adair
#66. How's that wrestling match with God going?" Pigpen asks. "From here you look mighty tired.
Katie McGarry
#67. Pigpen is one of those men we stand solid for. He fought in Afghanistan. Served several terms in the Army as a Ranger. He won't ask anyone for permission to exercise his God-given rights.
Katie McGarry
#68. And if by some miracle he did manage to start the truck, Pigpen and Dust would stand around it like human cement pillars.
Katie McGarry
#69. Pigpen taught me how to upload code from the internet and how to get it on people's computers and phones so I have a back door to their network.
Katie McGarry
#71. He [Pigpen] appears too damn happy and that causes a wave of uneasiness.
Katie McGarry
#72. Pigpen frowns. "He's been slippery, but I've got him. I'll be fucking up his world real soon."
Pigpen produced hard evidence against Kyle and his three other buddies who had been using that Bragger site to blackmail girls from school.
Katie McGarry
#73. The picnic shakes as Pigpen climbs it from behind, then plants himself next to me. "We should change your road name to F-U-F. Fucked-Up and Forlorn.
Katie McGarry
#74. I [Pigpen] grew up in their clubhouse. I understand you because I am you. I also learned to crawl on the sticky floors of where guys made their oaths. But here's the difference, I grew up watching people make stupid mistakes in the name of revenge.
Katie McGarry
#76. Two motorcycles rumble in behind me and park in open spots. It's Pigpen and Dust. They're part of the volunteers tailing me and Violet until we're safe.
Katie McGarry
#77. There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.
James Herriot
#78. There's this guy in my club, Pigpen. He's about the same age as Ms. Whitlock, late twenties, and he's a walking hard-on for this woman even though she would never give him the time of day. He practically runs into walls when she's around because he's too focused on checking her out.
Katie McGarry
#79. Earlier, when I'm at my prettiest, I almost have to force myself on you. Now, while I'm covered in grime, you insist on kissing me. I suppose if I fall into the pigpen and come up covered in muck, you'll ask me to marry you.
Kevin Hardman
#80. Now you're holding her over a bridge. How do you see this playing out, kid?" - Pigpen
Katie McGarry
#81. I flip off Pigpen. He suggests something anatomically impossible, and as the familiar ribbing begins[--}
Katie McGarry
#82. We reach the end of the hallway and Pigpen winks at me as he opens a door.
Katie McGarry
#83. Pigpen shoves off the railing and looks at me like I've been caught knocking back the liquor store.
Katie McGarry
#84. Proving he's a crazy son of a bitch, Pigpen flashes me that guilty-by-definition-of-insanity grin. "See, was talking so bad? A few weeks with me and you'll be ready for full-on family therapy.
Katie McGarry
#85. When we foolishly believe that our ways, our opinions, our plans somehow have jurisdiction over the sovereign will of the Creator of the universe, we will always end up in one place: the pigpen.
Kasey Van Norman
#86. You've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.
Madeleine L'Engle
#87. Pigpen's been tearing through the cabin, the yard, the clubhouse like a toddler on the warpath.
Katie McGarry
#88. Got a warrant or something?" Pigpen asks in a low voice that's more of a threat than a question.
Katie McGarry
#89. Pigpen assesses Razor with a half-sarcastic grin. "Now, that's how we work. Razor calls this clean, so I'll drive Kyle home to Mom and Dad myself.
Katie McGarry
#90. Eli and Pigpen are playing kickball with my younger siblings.
Katie McGarry
#91. So how many of you liked the poem?" Ms. Whitlock asks.
The entire class raises their hands. The entire class, except for me and Razor.
Katie McGarry
#92. This time Ms. Whitlock does look my way and she grants me the type of glare reserved for people who kick puppies.
Katie McGarry
#93. The guys from the board are at a smaller bonfire near the tree line. They're laughing. Talking shit. Enjoying the fact that they've tried to play with my life. Yelling. Loud shouts. It's near me, but the chaos controlling me makes it incoherent.
Katie McGarry
#94. I'm not a tail-tucked-between-my-legs type of guy, but this lady is one of the few that can reduce me to begging.
Katie McGarry
#95. Which is great, since my English teacher hates late students like I hate riding my motorcycle in forty-degree weather while it rains.
Katie McGarry
#96. Ms. Whitlock points at the clock over her desk.
Katie McGarry
#97. Most of the guys from the club who are employees for the security company are out on runs. The other half of the club, the guys who work normal jobs, are out doing their thing
Katie McGarry
#98. That's a huge reason why Cyrus started the security company - to give jobs to brothers who the community shut out.
Katie McGarry
#99. Ms. Whitlock stands in front of her desk in her patented white button-down shirt, gray pencil skirt and dark-rimmed glasses.
Katie McGarry
#100. I've killed people before, Razor, and that shit...it changes everything and it doesn't just change you. It's an avalanche to everyone around[-]
Katie McGarry
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