“He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Shootings, hormones, Misery, columbine
“It was hard to venture back near the place you’d been bred without settling into the characteristics of the person you’d been there.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Home, childhood home, Personality, reverting
“I’ve always thought that when something really bad happens to a person, other people just have to know about it. You can’t be a tree falling in the woods with no one to hear you crash.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Suffering, Gossip, Communication
“He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, he’d have to turn the barrel against his own temple.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Ghosts, minds, Haunted, Suicide
“If hell was anything, it was talk radio — and family.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Family, Hell, radio, Torture
“That was one thing you found out when you were stoned, or wasted, or feverish: that the world was always turning and that only a healthy mind could block out the sickening whirl of it.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Drunk, stoned, healthy
“The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear. Jude understood the impulse.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Mad, Demons, Impulse, Insanity
“All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Music, World, humanity, Singing
“He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Ghosts, Haunted, creepy
“The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear. Jude understood the impulse. Each beat of his heart was a fresh and staggering blow felt in the nerves behind his eyes and in his temples. Punishing evidence of li…”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Life, Suffering, Pain