Red Quotes

“But I figure passion’s like the wind in the trees out there. Blows hard for a while and feels strong and clean while it’s blowing and maybe it even blows so long and hard that you start living with it. It feels like the wind’s a part of you, like it’s essential, if you know what I mean, something you can hardly imagine life without. But it’s got to pass. So you can get on with things without all the confusion of that wind in your hair.”
― Jack Ketchum, Red

“He was a good man and a kind man but he never knew what he wanted. I think that eventually it killed him.”
― Jack Ketchum, Red

“The life he’d known now seemed capable of multiple, even infinite shatterings.”
― Jack Ketchum, Red

“There were so many hidden realities in the world, so many secret lives. It seemed like nobody lived just one.”
― Jack Ketchum, Red

“You tell me why's a man's blood is any better or any more precious than a dog's blood? It sure ain't to the dog.”
― Jack Ketchum, Red

“Bad enough I’m a goddamn burden to myself.”
― Jack Ketchum, Red

“The dead are home before us, daddy, she said. But we have work to do.”
― Jack Ketchum, Red

“Sometimes the only way to know a thing is to know it first hand, Mr McCormack. See it. Taste it. Smell it. Then you know it”
― Jack Ketchum, Red

“Good ol’ boys could be pushed. Wolves could be made to snap. It was time he started pushing.”
― Jack Ketchum, Red

“So don’t go getting all guilty and stupid on me. We’re your family. Like your mother and Tim and Mary were your family. Hell, you’ve sorted this out for yourself already. Or else . . .’ ‘Or else I wouldn’t be here.’ ‘Right. You only need somebody to tell you you’re not just howling at the moon right now. Well, you’re not. Or else I am too. And so’s pretty much everybody else I like or ever did like and as far as I’m concerned, we can go right on doing it just for the pretty sound it makes. To hell with what people think.’ He”
― Jack Ketchum, Red