The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

by Grady Hendrix

as a parent, you endure pain so your children don’t have to.

“No one likes their children,” Maryellen said. “We love them to death, but we don’t like them.”

sometimes you did a thing because that was just what you did, not because it was sensible.

“The only people who don’t apologize are psychopaths.”

“None of our family are close,” he said. “But when family needs, you go.”

“Some people use literature to understand their lives,”

“A reader lives many lives,” James Harris said. “The person who doesn’t read lives but one.

Her one job as a parent was to protect her children from monsters. The ones under the bed, the ones in the closet, the ones hiding in the dark. Instead, she’d invited the monster into her home and been too weak to stop it from taking whatever it wanted.