The Cage Keeper and Other Stories Quotes

“The JD wasn't going down smooth at all. Not like good stuff should. Instead of a warm slow seeping, it seemed to be kicking its way down his throat. And the buzz felt wrong; it was coming too fast, after only a few shots, and it wasn't rounding out any of the sharp edges. It was somehow leaving everything ragged.”
― Andre Dubus III, The Cage Keeper and Other Stories

“He thought of winter coming, how it's the only season that stays like it will never leave;”
― Andre Dubus III, The Cage Keeper and Other Stories

“If my father had been working at the 7-Eleven in Wyoming last night, what would he have done? Would he have gone for Elroy's vital-organ zones? Or would he have aimed for his elbows, knees, and shoulders?”
― Andre Dubus III, The Cage Keeper and Other Stories

“But beneath them all, at the very bottom of the stack, is a worn and slightly tattered magazine called African Mamas Sucking Hog. I flip through it real quick; a bunch of young black girls dressed like Kenyans giving fat-ass bikers blow jobs. I smile at this; Elroy the scholar. Elroy the sicko masturbator.”
― Andre Dubus III, The Cage Keeper and Other Stories