Cover Quotes

“She knew it happened, but now that it had happened and to people near her, she couldn’t even absorb it enough to fear it thoroughly.”
― Jack Ketchum, Cover

“It was such an easy, natural, stupid thing to do. The dog was a good dog and they’d taken care of one another. The dog had even taught him things. He remembered when he and Alma had gone to the ASPCA and picked him out of the litter, so small Lee could hold him in the palm of his hand. He’d been born on the street behind a grocery store and you could see the street still terrified him, because they’d sat on Alma’s mother’s couch looking out the window that first day and the dog’s eyes got wide and he’d tremble every time a car drove by. And Lee could relate to that. So he sat there and stroked him, stroked him for hours, getting better and better at it, adjusting his touch to the body weight of the dog and the small fragile bones, trying to make the dog feel good, calming him until he fell asleep across the back of the couch.”
― Jack Ketchum, Cover