The Girl Next Door Quotes

“It's one thing to be threatened. It's quite another thing to be threatened in grammatically incorrect fashion. I felt like some basic right as a literate American had been violated.”
― Brad Parks, The Girl Next Door

“What the hell happened to you?" she demanded. "What took so long?"

"My car got towed."

"Okay, but why did you swim here?"

"I walked. It just happens to be a hundred and fifty-seven degrees outside.”
― Brad Parks, The Girl Next Door

“No way you can get stuck. Your head is much smaller. Look at this big coconut of mine. It's practically Jupiter. Yours is more like, I don't know, Mercury or something."

"That doesn't mean I'm going along with an idea that you're pulling out of Uranus."

We both stopped to snicker. Hard to resist a Uranus joke.”
― Brad Parks, The Girl Next Door

“In the end, I just engaged in a staring contest with the wall. The wall kept winning, but I felt like I was gaining on it.”
― Brad Parks, The Girl Next Door

“Some people describe their cats as curious or playful or affectionate. Mine is best described as dormant.”
― Brad Parks, The Girl Next Door

“For all the politically correct halfwits who defined “diversity” in terms of skin color or ethnicity—things that might just be window dressing, depending on the individual—the real value in diversity is having people around who think differently from you, friends who can tell you when your logical is someone else’s crazy.”
― Brad Parks, The Girl Next Door

“All the wrinkles of their days on this planet have been smoothed away and turned into one seamless narrative. All their trials and struggles have taken on the aura of parable. All their successes have been magnified, while their failures have been forgotten. And by the time they “passed on”—or “made their transition,” or “entered into eternal rest,” or any of those other wonderful euphemisms for the Long Dirt Nap—they seemed to have achieved some kind of understanding of why they walked this planet in the first place.”
― Brad Parks, The Girl Next Door

“one sign of a well-led life is that you have great stories to tell when it’s over.”
― Brad Parks, The Girl Next Door