Scott Hawkins QUOTES

7 " She thinks that if her son were to come home now it would be like waking from a dream. She would feel again. But the boy will not come home, and though she will not allow herself to know this, she knows it anyway. And so she makes brownies for the memory of her baby. She can’t help herself—faint comfort is better than no comfort at all, you see? Her world is very cold, and this is the thing she warms herself over with. "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char

8 " Yo, man," he said. "You got, like, half a dog hanging off your back bumper."

"Do I?"

"Yeah. Did you drive over it? On purpose, like?"

"No. The Buddha teaches respect for all life." Then, under his breath. "I guess I did shoot a couple though. "

― Scott Hawkins

9 " The truck honked. Steve looked up. Three or four feet up, some guy in the passenger seat was gesturing for Steve to rolldown his window. Steve did. "Yes?"
The passenger was a kid, about 18 or 20. His baseball cap was on backward. "Yo man," he said, "you got like half a dog hanging off your back bumper."
"Do I?"
"Ya. Did you drive over it? On purpose-like?"
"No, the Buddha teaches respect for all life." [...]
"There's blood all over your fuckin door too, man. You get in an assident or somethin?"
"Nope. Dogfight." Something occurred to him. "Hey, is there a vet around here?"
The kid looked at him like he was crazy. "Man, ain't no vet gonna help that dog. He's cut in half, yo. "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char

10 " They were all staring at him now, the way dumb shits sometimes did when you surprised them. "

― Scott Hawkins

11 " He ended up teaching middleschool art for a living. That was some soothing shit right there. "

― Scott Hawkins , The Library at Mount Char