David Joy > David's Quotes

“They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,' he said.

We're not opposites.'

I don't mean just you and me. Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave.”
― James Salter

“Some souls aren't worth saving, I thought. There're some souls that even the devil wants no part of.”
― David Joy, Where All Light Tends to Go

“There was a place where all light tends to go, and I reckon that was heaven.”
― David Joy, Where All Light Tends to Go

“Light never shined on a man like me and that was certain. In a lot of ways, that made men like Daddy the lucky ones to have only ever known the darkness. Knowing only darkness, a man doesn't have to get his heart broken in search of the light. I envied him for that.”
― David Joy, Where All Light Tends to Go

“Only the middle ground of this wicked world mattered, the vast gap that stretched between, and those who were born with enough grit to brave it.”
― David Joy, Where All Light Tends to Go