Red Rabbit Quotes

“In another life, perhaps we will be lifted up once more, but while we are on this earth, and in this town, we fall as if into a deep, dark well, without ever touching the bottom of it.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“She, more than most, knew that the world operated by an unwavering set of rules. Fairness and justice had no place in the system of cogs and levers that kept the moon in the sky and the fish in the sea.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“Joe could not remember when he had felt more afraid, but he had been heard and touched, and he decided that ought to be enough for a dead man.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“Down in the valley, the valley so low, Hang your head over, hear the wind blow. Hear the wind blow, dear, hear the wind blow, Hang your head over, hear the wind blow.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“Fairness and justice had no place in the system of cogs and levers that kept the moon in the sky and the fish in the sea.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“Joe and Isaiah sat for a while, sharing the pipe and watching the men quarrel. The men did not seem to notice anybody else, and their disagreement never ended. Joe wondered about the passage of time, and how ever since he died it had felt like a river that ran every which way.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“But the hanging bodies puzzled the Huntsman. Curious, he left the shed and circled the rooming house. The front door was open, so he stood and entered as a man would. He heard voices at the back of the house, and he sniffed the air, then drew his bow and nocked an arrow.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“But there were some things he didn’t like as much. He could see the grass blowing in a gentle breeze, but he couldn’t feel it. He stopped and watched a boy eat an apple beside a brook, and he tried to remember what apples tasted like. He didn’t think he would probably ever eat an apple again.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“The music was strongest in the clearing, and the Huntsman found himself thinking about the woman again: her scent, ripe and earthy, and the fine downy hair on her arms and legs. He growled at the trees, but the music continued.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“Well, heck, anything’s a coincidence if you look at it right.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“Witches have potions,” Ubel said, “and powders, and candles with aromas that can cloud a man’s mind.” “I never smelled a candle that could make me forget I smelled it.” “Well, you wouldn’t know, would you?” Duff nodded and pulled his chair closer. It was a good point. “We men aren’t devious like those wicked women. They like to take advantage of our inherent nobility.” “With candles?”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“Why don’t you go on home and stay there for the rest of your life?”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“I don’t know your real name,” she said to Rabbit.

“The man and his wife called me Girl. And Old Tom called me Rabbit because I was a Rabbit when he found me.”

“Those are labels, not names.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“She watched as the wet black toad hopped up the boy’s arm, over his chin, and into his mouth.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“The black toad was perched on his chin. Bill watched, wide-eyed and frozen, as the toad crawled up and into his mouth.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit

“Rumors about how Olivia’s bones had broken and reknit themselves in bizarre configurations, how her flesh had run in rivulets across her wasted muscles, then solidified again in peaks and troughs, scales and horns.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit