Wolf In White Van Quotes

#1. Wolf in White Van is beautiful, enigmatic, and sad, and like every other brilliant thing John Darnielle has ever done, it seems to come from some fully imagined universe, of which we only get to see this haunting, enticing sliver. I utterly love it.

J. Robert Lennon

#2. I know there must be other navigable paths where either nothing happens, that night or later, or where, when the idea to just pull the curtain on most things and then on everything, just because crosses my mind, I let the moment pass, and I go to sleep like everyone else did on my street that night.

John Darnielle

#3. To the left, just past the painting, on the other side of the hall, is the bathroom, the sort of open door that if cameras found it as they passed through the house in a horror movie would trigger a blast of synthesizers.

John Darnielle

#4. It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#5. Time his depressingly miserable life story - how

John Green

#6. Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.

Rita Hayworth

#7. Well,' he said, 'we think you probably do.' When I imagine this scene as part of a movie, the minute of silence after my father says this is extended for an hour or so, and then the credits roll.

John Darnielle

#8. I expected him to leave then, because it always seems to me like nothing ever happens, but something did happen: he began to back up.

John Darnielle

#9. Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. So beautiful, I forgot how to breathe.

Nancy Gideon

#11. -"You won't like me if I'm cruel."
-"I don't like you now."
-"We don't lie."
-"I'm mortal, Irial. I can lie all I want to.

Melissa Marr

#12. In a movie version of this scene the driver wheels his glance abruptly to the window where a misshapen man stands watching it all unfold, and fixes me with a threatening look. That didn't happen.

John Darnielle

#13. I thought about the guy in the truck, the focus in his expression, and I felt like I already knew enough of the story to tell it to somebody else maybe better than either of its major players could.

John Darnielle

#14. I had a funny feeling that day, all day: something about how much I liked my life and where I was with it.

John Darnielle