quotes by Joe Meno

"What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths."
— Joe Meno (The Boy Detective Fails)

"The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict."
— Joe Meno (The Boy Detective Fails)

"The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are."
— Joe Meno (Demons in the Spring)

"It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula."
— Joe Meno (The Boy Detective Fails)

"An act of evil is the death of wonder "
— Joe Meno

"The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media. Books are different from television or film because they ask you to finish the project. You have to be actively engaged to read a book. It's more like a blueprint. What it really is, is an opportunity... A book is a place where you're forced to use your imagination. I find it disappointing that you're not being asked to imagine more."
— Joe Meno

"After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go, if they become like shadows, if they fade away when they disappear from your life. The only thing I could see was the broken picket fence. The only sound I could hear was the cry of birds being killed in the night."
— Joe Meno (Tender As Hellfire)

"When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer."
— Joe Meno (The Great Perhaps: A Novel)