Daniel Barnett > Daniel's Quotes

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Adolescence is an earthquake, one that feels like it will never end while you're living it, and eventually there comes a choice. You can crawl under your desk and hide, or you can stand up on top of that shaking desk and dance.”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things

“She'd never been in the annex. The word bothered her. It sounded like ax hiding behind an extra syllable.”
― Daniel Barnett, Longreave

“. . . it was his teeth that stood out most of all, each smooth and square and exactly the same. Teeth like big white blocks. Teeth so wide they bulged in his cheeks, so tall they filled half his face.”
― Daniel Barnett, The Safe

“He was a good man and a kind man but he never knew what he wanted. I think that eventually it killed him.”
― Jack Ketchum, Red

“I think we all have that place where we feel closest to ourselves, where the mind slides into perfect orbit around the heart. Mine used to be on the football field, running the ball or running down the guy with the ball. Now it’s the road, that place between here and there.”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things

“Unconsciousness is a teleporter. When the low-rider struck me on that winding road outside of Honaw and sent me flipping up into the air like a coin, heads over tails over heads over tails, I landed on a cotton-white mattress under starched-white sheets, my aunt asleep in a nearby chair.”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things

“I remember my wheels bouncing on the asphalt and red earth gushing down the mountainside and lightning setting off thunderworks in the sky, everything loud, everything bright, Fourth of July in a bottomless Fall.”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things

“He was a bridge, like the rest of us were bridges, like Honaw was a great big bridge, on one side life and on the other death and beneath it the troll who wouldn’t let anybody pass.”
― Daniel Barnett, Poor Things