Bad Dogs Quotes

“I think there are entire generations of spiders living in there, Scout.” “If you turn the oven on they won’t be.” “You disgust me.”
― Riley Nash, Bad Dogs

“The world won’t be kind to a boy who can’t talk, and I don’t know if I’m strong enough to learn new kinds of pain.”
― Riley Nash, Bad Dogs

“My hand hovers over the packages of double-stuffed, then veers toward the triple-stuffed, because if I was rich I’d swim every morning in a pool of Oreo filling instead of water. I toss them in the cart with the rest of my dinner of champions—beer, Pop Tarts, and lube.”
― Riley Nash, Bad Dogs

“I unfold my notes and arrange them in order on my leg. I’ve read them under my breath a hundred times in the last couple of days to make sure I can say them aloud when the time comes. It starts with one clear sentence at the top, then breaks down into a flow chart of all the ways I thought the conversation might go and how I could answer. My heart’s pounding hard enough to make me feel dizzy, but I wrap my hand around the base of my throat like it’s the weight of my collar and dial the number I scrawled at the bottom of my notes.”
― Riley Nash, Bad Dogs

“I’m probably gazing at him with the same wonder as the first day, when I thought that he was a literal angel surrounded in light. Except now I know better—he’s vain and childish and unstoppable. He sleeps too late and dances to Cascada and lives off cookies. He tamed me with microwave chicken nuggets and a stolen dog collar.
Fuck angels.
I’m pretty sure I love him. 
Shit.”
― Riley Nash, Bad Dogs

“I’m going to crack soon; I can always feel the rage coming. When metal scrapes against metal again and again, it makes sparks. And you can only throw so many sparks into dry tinder before something ignites.”
― Riley Nash, Bad Dogs

“My childhood therapist always told me that my voice was just shy. It doesn’t like to come out when I’m anxious, even if I know exactly what I want to say. Even if not talking makes everything a hundred times worse. It only works when I feel safe.”
― Riley Nash, Bad Dogs

“When I destroy things, people hear me.”
― Riley Nash, Bad Dogs