Sour Candy QUOTES

1 " Four months to the day he first encountered the boy at Walmart, the last of Phil Pendleton's teeth fell out. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Sour Candy

3 " A line from a book he’d read in highschool popped into his mind: The nameless are easier to bury. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Sour Candy

5 " It couldn’t be a coincidence that the candy had been named after a brood parasite known for laying its eggs in the nests of other birds. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Sour Candy

7 " People tend to distance themselves from the insane, as if to inquire is to request an invitation to the same dance. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Sour Candy

9 " At first, there was nothing.
At second, there was everything.
And too late he realized that what he had put into his mouth was not candy at all, but a key. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Sour Candy

11 " Because despite the torture he’d been put through, the pain and loss he did not believe he had done anything to deserve, he had tried to be a decent person, tried to stay within the confines of morality. And all it had gotten him was more suffering. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Sour Candy

13 " All he will ever retain from however long he spends in that other place—and it’s an eternity—will be fragments of horrors, so garish and alien it is impossible for his mind to put them together into any kind of sense or order, but they will be enough to compound the seriousness of the situation in which he has found himself. "

― Kealan Patrick Burke , Sour Candy