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“So you’re going to wipe out an entire generation of the town, because, what—you think we don’t respect you enough? As if your generation gives a fuck about us. Everything was better way back when, but when we try to tell you how things are now, you don’t want to hear it. Make Kettle Springs great again . . . You’re not only a psychopath, you’re dumb as shit,” Cole said.
you’d think. I mean, we didn’t say it right away like that. You can’t say it all yourself. It has to seem like their idea. So you nudge. You tell people they’re right, tell ’em what they want to hear, you listen—really listen, not pretend listen—but then the whole time you’re doing that listening, you’re pushing the boundaries forward. Reshaping morality. Drawing a new line in the sand while nobody else is watching, then wiping away the old one. And the whole time you know . . . You know where it’s all leading.”
do that anyway. It was the stress of moving, leaving her friends behind.” “You know the thing that gets me?” Cole said. “How you pretend to care. Even in your insane way, you pretend to care. You’re all so worried about what’s wrong with the kids, when you’re the ones selling us guns, telling us times were better when men were men, pretending that global warming is a hoax, and turning hate into a team sport. I mean, yeah, you have taken it all a step further, sure, but it’s not like anyone over the age of fifty has ever really given a shit about us. You guys may be homicidal lunatics, but,
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Money, of course. The false hope that the one rich guy in town could pull everyone out of their shitty lives. If he would only reinvest in the town. Cole had heard it all before.
“Oh, so you blame him now? Or is everything that happened because you’re a misunderstood snowflake? Which is it?” Dunne was tall enough he needed to bend to hiss into Cole’s left ear. “You and your friends never stop blaming other people. Never think about the consequences of your actions. It’s pathetic.”
Madness. Hate. Insecurity. Tradition. The American Dream.
kids would have persisted. Quinn took comfort in that. The fact that history bent toward progress, no matter how hard the assholes tried pushing back.
