The Long-Legged Fly Quotes

“In my junior year I discovered books. . . . Devoured [them] the way other kids did candy or sandwiches, spent days hunched over . . . my spine an oversized question mark.”
― James Sallis, The Long-Legged Fly

“In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out of you. The only help you'll get is a few hard drinks and morning.”
― James Sallis, The Long-Legged Fly

“We aren’t angels. Angels couldn’t breathe the air down here. They’d die.”
― James Sallis, The Long-Legged Fly

“I wondered then: what was it that started a person sinking? Was that long fall in him (or her) from the start, in us all perhaps; or something he put there himself, creating it over time and unwittingly just as he created his face, his life, the stories he lived by, the ones that let him go on living.”
― James Sallis, The Long-Legged Fly

“It tumbled out of him much as the world must have gone in: fitful starts, none of them connected; and underneath, everything blurring together.”
― James Sallis, The Long-Legged Fly